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  Arun Manilal Gandhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arun Manilal Gandhi (born April 14, 1934, Durban, South Africa) is the fifth grandson of Mahatma Gandhi through his second son Manilal.
Born to Sushila and Manilal Gandhi, Arun's childhood days under South Africa's apartheid for someone of Indian heritage was considerably difficult, humiliating, and often violently abusive.
Gandhi also remarked that the fate of Palenstinians are ten times worse than the treatment of whites upon the fls in South Africa.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arun_Gandhi   (564 words)

  
 Mahatma.Gandhi.y2u.co.uk - Mahatma Gandhi - Autobiography
Gandhi pushed through a resolution at the Calcutta Congress in December 1928 calling on the British government to grant India dominion status within a year or face a new campaign of non-violence with complete independence for the country as its goal.
Gandhi was again arrested, and the government attempted to destroy his influence by completely isolating him from his followers.
Gandhi and his followers adopted the practice of weaving their own clothes from thread they themselves spun, and encouraged others to do so.
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 Mahatma Gandhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Gandhi drew inspiration from the Bhagavad Gita and the writings of Leo Tolstoy who in the 1880s had undergone a profound conversion to personal form of Christian anarchism.
Gandhi translated Tolstoy's "Letter to a [1] (http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_to_a_Hindu_-_Leo_Tolstoy) which was written in 1908 in response to aggressive Indian nationalists the two corresponded until Tolstoy's death in The letter by Tolstoy uses Hindu philosophy from the Vedas and sayings of the God Lord Krishna to present his view that state of growing Indian nationalism.
Gandhi and his followers followed the of weaving their own cloth using a spinning-wheel and wearing a dress made of He also advocated others use spinning wheels spin clothes.
www.freeglossary.com /Mohandas_Gandhi   (1913 words)

  
 Mohandas Gandhi Biography
Gandhi translated Tolstoy's "Letter to a Hindu" [1] (http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_to_a_Hindu_-_Leo_Tolstoy) which was written in 1908 in response to aggressive Indian nationalists, and the two corresponded until Tolstoy's death in 1910.
Gandhi gave up sexual intercourse at the age of 36 and became totally celibate while still married, a course deeply influenced by the Hindu idea of brahmacharya, or spiritual and practical purity, largely associated with celibacy.
Gandhi was against conventional education as taught in schools and believed that children learn best from parents and from the society.
www.biographybase.com /biography/Gandhi_Mohandas.html   (1350 words)

  
 Gandhi's Prisoner? The life of Gandhi's son Manilal
Manilal Gandhi was the second of Gandhi's four sons.
Gandhi returned with his family to India in 1914 but within three years Manilal was sent back to South Africa to assist with the publication of the Gujarati-English weekly, Indian Opinion, which was published at Phoenix.
It analyses, in particular, the extent to which Manilal was bound by his father in crucial matters of his life and the consequences of this.
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 Manilal Gandhi
Manilal shouldered a great deal of responsibilities at a young age, since Gandhiji started going to prison for defying the unjust laws of the country.
There are many letters written to Manilal from jail, in which Gandhiji gives him instructions on what to read, what work to do, how to take care of the family and, especially, how to take care of his mother who was not in good health at the time.
Manilal started going to prison at the age of 15 in defiance of the unjust and racist laws of South Africa and continued to do so until almost a year before his death in 1956.
www.liveindia.com /freedomfighters/26.html   (1528 words)

  
 Articles - Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi was a mediocre student in his youth at Porbandar and later Rajkot, and barely passed the matriculation exam for the University of Bombay in 1887, joining Samaldas College.
Gandhi was also inspired by the American writer Henry David Thoreau's famous essay on "Civil Disobedience." Gandhi's years in South Africa were his formative years as a socio-political activist, when the concepts and techniques of civil disobedience and non-violent resistance were developed.
Gandhi's philosophy and his ideas of satya and ahimsa were influenced by the Bhagavad Gita and Hindu beliefs, the Jain religion and the pacifist Christian teachings of Leo Tolstoy.
www.haabaa.com /articles/mahatma-gandhi.php   (3412 words)

  
 M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence :: LibraryItem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Gandhi believed pleasure must come from within the soul and excitement from serving the needy, from caring for the family, the children, and relatives.
Gandhi said an elected representative is one on whom you have bestowed your power of attorney.
Gandhi said when politicians (or anyone else, for that matter) give up the pursuit of Truth they, or in the case of parties, would be doomed.
www.gandhiinstitute.org /Library/LibraryItem.cfm?LibraryID=780   (2077 words)

  
 Articles On & By Gandhi
Gandhi and the children were brought on their arrival from India in 1896 and when Gandhi's life was threatened by an angry mob.
Gandhi, on arrival, talked over the whole thing with me, described the effect Unto This Last had produced on his mind, and proposed that Indian Opinion should be removed to a farm, on which everyone should labour, drawing the same living wage, and attending to the press work in his spare time.
Gandhi suggested that the engineer might then be asked to try again to start the engine, so that if successful, we might still finish in time to catch the train with the papers.
www.mkgandhi.org /articles/earlydays.htm   (14170 words)

  
 Manilal Gandhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Manilal Mohandas Gandhi (October 28, 1892, - 1956) was the second son of Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi and was active in his father's movement.
Gandhi worked for almost four decades, from 1917 onwards, as the editor of the Gujarati-English weekly publication, Indian Opinion, at Phoenix, Durban.
In 1927, Manilal married Sushila Mashruwala, and had two daughters, Sita (1928) and Ela (1940), and one son, Arun (1934).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manilal_Gandhi   (133 words)

  
 Gandhi's prisoner? -DAWN - International; 24 September, 2004
On his father's orders, Manilal Gandhi spent most of his adult life managing the settlement founded by Gandhi in the eastern port city of Durban and editing the activist's "Indian Opinion" newspaper.
Gandhi believed working on the farm and running the newspaper offered a better education, she said.
Gandhi left South Africa with his family in 1914 but sent Manilal, the second of four boys, back to keep his legacy alive.
www.dawn.com /2004/09/24/int12.htm   (384 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi - Meditation Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Gandhi called for a satyagraha that soon led to violent outbreaks across the country, most notably the massacre of 400 Indians by the British army in the town of Amritsar, and martial law.
Gandhi attempted to bridge these differences through any means, including a three-week fast in the autumn of 1924, but with limited success.
Gandhi was again arrested, and this time the government attempted to destroy his influence by completely isolating him from his followers.
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 Gandhi’s Prisoner? The Life of Gandhi’s Son Manilal Online Indian Book store - Bagchee’s Best sellers Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The second of these was Manilal who, through his work, was the son that most closely espoused and persistently furthered the moral and ideological vision of his father.
Born in India, Manilal, Manilal Gandi spent his early years with his parents in South Africa, during which time his father was emerging as a mass leader and advocate of satyagraha.
Gandhi returned with his family to India in 1914 but within three years Manilal was sent back to South Africa as an emissary to continue Gandhian work in the country where it had originated.
www.bagchee.com /BookDisplay.aspx?Bkid=B29609   (345 words)

  
 Friendster - Mahatma II Gandhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Gandhi's principle of satyagraha, often roughly translated as way of truthor pursuit of truth, has inspired generations of democratic and anti-racist activists including Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everyone whos proud to be an Indian, and is proud to say that Gandhi fought for our freedom, JOIN and become Part of this legacy that will last for generation and generations to come.
King often cited Gandhis influence, and the movements pivotal 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., had all the earmarks of a Gandhi an non cooperation campaign.
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 M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence :: Founders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, Arun is the fifth grandson of India’s legendary leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi.
She is occupied with compiling Gandhi’s writings into subjects like: Fasts and Fasting, The Great Marches for Justice, and, About Terrorists and Terrorism, etc. This research, hopefully, will be published by the Gandhi Institute as resource material for education in nonviolence.
Sunanda is a mother figure to all at the Gandhi Institute where she provides an abundance of love, encouragement, comfort, humor, and wisdom.
www.gandhiinstitute.org /AboutUs/Founders.cfm   (768 words)

  
 The Hindu : dated February 5, 1953: Manilal Gandhi sentenced in S.Africa
Journalist Manilal Gandhi, second son of Mahatma Gandhi, was sentenced to pay a fine of 50 sterling or in default to undergo 50 days' compulsory labour at Germiston on the 4th.
Reverend Michael Scott, champion of the cause of the African natives, praised Mahatma Gandhi's doctrine of non-violence and passive non-cooperation.
Scott observed that Gandhiji was the architect of the formula of passive non-violent resistance which had had a tremendous success in India, and which was then being applied in S.Africa where thousands of Africans and Indians had resolved to fight racial discrimination of the worst type.
www.hindu.com /thehindu/2003/02/05/stories/2003020501320801.htm   (264 words)

  
 TIME.com: Martyrdom Requested -- Apr. 16, 1951 -- Page 1
Manilal Gandhi, 58, son of the late Mohandas Gandhi, stepped into South Africa's tense racial controversy last week.
Manilal will take only water, salt and a little bicarbonate of soda during his fast.
The elder Gandhi, however, did not develop the fast (or hunger strike) as a publicity and political tenchnique until 1918, after he had returned to India.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,814699,00.html   (425 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2004548212   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Drawn from letters and interviews with family members, this biography yields a fascinating account of one of Gandhi's four sons, offering insights into Gandhi the father and illustrating the difficulties and successes Gandhi's heirs have had in continuing his legacy.
This is the story of Gandhi's second son, Manilal Gandhi, who is often lost in the shadow of his father, but led a phenomenal life of his own.
Following in his father's footsteps with regard to political involvement, Manilal struck out on his own as a young man and became an important South African journalist.
www.loc.gov /catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2004548212-d.html   (152 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi Research & Media Service - Photo Library
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 African Activists Archive Project — Audio
Description: Manilal Gandhi was born in India, the son of “Mahatma” Mohandas Gandhi, in 1892.
He moved to Natal in 1896 to join his father who had moved to South Africa in 1893.
In 1914 Manilal returned with his father to India.
africa.msu.edu /activists/multimedia/audio/view.php?id=11   (356 words)

  
 Gandhi (1982)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Plot Outline: Biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest.
Goofs: Continuity: When Gandhi is escorted into the office of the top prison official, the pendulum on the grandfather clock in the background jumps between shots.
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