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  Gandhi im Indien,Mahatma Gandhi im Indien,Mohandas Gandhi im Indien,Mohandas K Gandhi von Indien
Bei Besuchen in Großbritannien traf Gandhi mit den Arbeitern in englischen Tuchfabriken zusammen.
Gandhi versuchte der Regierung zu verdeutlichen, wie sehr das Volk unter der Steuer litt.
Obwohl Gandhi sich mit allen Kräften dafür einsetzte, konnte er weder Muslime und Hindus noch Briten dazu bewegen, der Gründung eines gemeinsamen Staates zuzustimmen.
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 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.
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  International Vegetarian Union - Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
Gandhi stated in The Vegetarian (interview published June 20, 1891) that "I may be said to have known the L.V.S." from the International Vegetarian Congress, held in London, 11-13 September 1890.
It is possible that he was co-opted onto the LVS Committee on Sept 19, but the LVS AGM was on January 9, 1891, and it is more likely that he was elected to the Committe on that date (precise details seem to have been lost).
In February 1891 Gandhi started writing articles for The Vegetarian, a weekly newspaper published independently of LVS but in close connection with it (this is also more consistent with his having joined the Committee in January rather than the previous September).
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  Learn more about Mahatma Gandhi in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948), known popularly as Mahatma Gandhi (Mahatma - Sanskrit: "great soul"), was one of the founding fathers of the modern Indian state and an influential advocate of Satyagraha (non-violent protest) as a means of revolution.
Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbander, Gujarat, India.
Gandhi translated Tolstoy's "Letter to a Hindu" which was written in 1908 in response to aggressive Indian nationalists, and the two corresponded until Tolstoy's death in 1910.
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 Mahatma Gandhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gandhi was a mediocre student in his youth at Porbandar and later Rajkot, barely passing the matriculation exam for the University of Bombay in 1887, and joining Samaldas College, Bhavnagar.
Gandhi felt that one should be aware of worshiping the symbols and idols of the religion and not its teachings, such as worshipping the crucifix whilst ignoring its significance as a symbol for self-sacrifice, for example.
Gandhi maintained this was because of the sin committed by upper caste Hindus by not letting untouchables in their temples (Gandhi was committed to the cause of improving the fate of untouchables, referring to them as Harijans, people of Krishna).
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 The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project: Biography
Mohandas K. Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 into a family of moderate wealth in western India.
Gandhi was released from jail and invited to meet with the British Government.
Gandhi called for a number of civil disobedience acts against the colonial authorities, but the British made efforts to isolate Gandhi and neutralize his influence.
www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/gandhi.htm   (1179 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Gandhi
Gandhi, also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born in Porbandar in the present state of Gujarāt on October 2, 1869, and educated in law at University College, London.
Gandhi also acknowledged his debt to the teachings of Christ and to the 19th-century American writer Henry David Thoreau, especially to Thoreau's famous essay “Civil Disobedience.” Gandhi considered the terms passive resistance and civil disobedience inadequate for his purposes, however, and coined another term, satyagraha (Sanskrit for “truth and firmness”).
Gandhi traveled through India, teaching ahimsa and demanding eradication of “untouchability.” The esteem in which he was held was the measure of his political power.
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 Manas: History and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi
His father died before Gandhi could finish his schooling, and at thirteen he was married to Kasturba [or Kasturbai], who was even younger.
Though his elders objected, Gandhi could not be prevented from leaving; and it is said that his mother, a devout woman, made him promise that he would keep away from wine, women, and meat during his stay abroad.
Gandhi was powerfully attracted to them, as he was to the texts of the major religious traditions; and ironically it is in London that he was introduced to the Bhagavad Gita.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/Gandhi/gandhi.html   (288 words)

  
 LÖPA Berlin - Biography of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in India and was murded in 1948 by the fanatic Hindu Nathuram Godsey.
Gandhi was a Hindu as well and born in the second highest cast.
Gandhi fought for the rights of minorities and people who were pushed down their whole life.
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 Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Gandhi actively supported the British in World War I in the hope of hastening India’s freedom, but he also led agrarian and labor reform demonstrations that embarrassed the British.
When the Congress refused to embrace his program in its entirety, Gandhi withdrew (1934), but his influence was such that Jawaharlal Nehru, his protégé, was named leader of the organization.
Gandhi was a major figure in the postwar conferences with the viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, and Muslim League leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah that led to India’s independence and the carving out of a separate Muslim state (Pakistan), although Gandhi vigorously opposed the partition.
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 Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate
Mohandas Karamchand – known as Mahatma or "Great-Souled" – Gandhi was born in Porbandar, the capital of a small principality in what is today the state of Gujarat in Western India, where his father was prime minister.
She and the rest of the Gandhi family belonged to a branch of Hinduism in which non-violence and tolerance between religious groups were considered very important.
Gandhi told his prayer meeting to-night that, though he had always opposed all warfare, if there was no other way of securing justice from Pakistan and if Pakistan persistently refused to see its proved error and continued to minimise it, the Indian Union Government would have to go to war against it.
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 Relationships with Mohandas Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu gunman, Nathuram Godse, on 1/30/1948, 5:41 PM in Delhi, India.
Mohandas Gandhi's grandfather, father, and uncle had served as prime ministers to the princes of Porbandar and other tiny Indian states, and though lower caste, the Gandhis were middle-class, cultured, and deeply religious Hindus.
Mohandas Gandhi’s habits of austerity became entrenched at this time, eating frugally and walking ten miles to school to save carfare.
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 BBC - History - Mohandas Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar in Gujarat.
Gandhi was appalled by the treatment of Indian immigrants there, and joined the struggle to obtain basic rights for them.
Gandhi was opposed to partition, and now fasted in an attempt to bring calm in Calcutta and Delhi.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/gandhi_mohandas.shtml   (473 words)

  
 TIME 100: Mohandas Gandhi
Gandhi at home next to a spinning wheel, which looms in the foreground as a symbol of India's struggle for independence
M.K. Gandhi, as the photograph itself demonstrates, was a passionate opponent of modernity and technology, preferring the pencil to the typewriter, the loincloth to the business suit, the plowed field to the belching manufactory.
Ghanshyam Das Birla, one of the merchant princes who backed him, once said, "He was more modern than I. But he made a conscious decision to go back to the Middle Ages." This is not, presumably, the revolutionary new direction in thought that the good folks at Apple are seeking to encourage.
www.time.com /time/time100/leaders/profile/gandhi.html   (374 words)

  
 An Idealist - Mohandas Gandhi   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gandhi's interests and talents lay in the area of personal diplomacy, or the skillful handling of people, and he instinctively sought to oppose the British Raj on humane, moral, even spiritual grounds.
Gandhi believed that an entrenched political and economic system could only be revolutionized by spiritual ideas, and so, over a period of years, he developed and implemented his own NF style of civil disobedience, what he called "satyagraha," a nobly principled, highly disciplined, courageously ethical strategy of non-violent passive resistance.
Gandhi's immediate objective was political freedom for India, and yet, for all his social activism, he never lost sight of a higher goal for himself and his people, the quest for divine truth and justice, for human dignity and integrity, for the true knowledge of God.
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 Illuminating Lives: Mohandas K. Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born Oct 2, 1869 in the Gujarat province of India.
Gandhi was unhappy as a lawyer in India, and in 1893 his family sent him to South Africa (at the time, like India, part of the British Empire.) There, "I discovered that as a man and as an Indian I had no rights", so Gandhi found his true vocation as an activist and moral reformer.
But Gandhi felt that the injection of penicillin would be an act of violence; he insisted on nursing her himself using natural methods.
www.mcs.drexel.edu /~gbrandal/Illum_html/Gandhi.html   (1890 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Mohandas K. Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's early years showed little sign of the great life he would go on to live.
Gandhi, until now too shy to even speak in front of a judge, sued the railroad company and won.
But Gandhi's legacy lived on after his death, showing the world that one can be a hero and accomplish great things without guns or swords or hatred.
www.myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=gandhi   (712 words)

  
 98.03.05: Mohandas Gandhi: The Art of Nonviolence
Gandhi’s inclusion of India’s lowest caste into his community caused Gandhi criticism throughout his life, but he was committed on principle to their full acceptance and he ultimately named them Harijans (Children of God).
Gandhi believed that all people were brothers and sisters, and that his nonviolent means of resistance to the British would eventually persuade the oppressors to see for themselves the dishonesty and injustice of the colonial system.
Gandhi believed to the extent that the spinner was able to turn away from self-centered thoughts and became more others-centered he or she would reach a higher sense of purpose and become more aware of God and His purposes.
www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1998/3/98.03.05.x.html   (10035 words)

  
 Gandhi Audio   (Site not responding. Last check: )
K. Gandhi was born in Porbandar, a village in Gujarat province in India in 1869.
One of the best surviving sound recordings of his voice, according to its label, could have been made as early as 1925 (according to one label) although it is usually attributed to 1931.
If it was in 1925, Gandhi would have been released the previous year from a two-year jail term.
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 Mohandas Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi was leader in the Indian nationalist movement against British rule.
Gandhi is remembered for using nonviolent protest to achieve justice.
Gandhi called them harijans, which means "children of god." Gandhi said that harijans had been blessed by their suffering.
www.mrdowling.com /612-gandhi.html   (192 words)

  
 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Return to India - Return to India He returned (1915) to India with a stature equal to that of the nationalist leaders...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: In South Africa - In South Africa Educated in India and in London, he was admitted to the English bar in 1889 and...
Mohandas Gandhi: (1869-1948) In an age of empire and military might, he proved that the powerless had power and that force of arms would not forever prevail against force of spirit.(Person Of The Century) (Time)
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 Mahatma Gandhi | Indian Spiritual/Political Leader and Humanitarian
Gandhi helped free the Indian people from British rule through nonviolent resistance, and is honored by his people as the father of the Indian Nation.
While Gandhi displayed loving kindness to everyone else, he was quite demanding and severe with his wife and sons.
Gandhi was arrested many times by the British for his activities in South Africa and India.
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 Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gandhi was the youngest child of his father's fourth wife.
The Italian-born Sonia was the widow of one Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi; daughter-in-law of another, Indira Gandhi; and granddaughter-in-law of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
The third member of his family to serve as prime minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi was the grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India's first prime minister, and the son and immediate successor of Indira Gandhi, who had been prime minister for four terms.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9109421   (724 words)

  
 A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF MOHANDAS K> GANDHI   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in 1869 to Hindu parents in the state of Gujarat in Western India.
To Gandhi's despair, however, the country was partitioned into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan.
The last two months of his life were spent trying to end the appalling violence which ensued, leading him to fast to the brink of death, an act which finally quelled the riots.
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