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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)

  
  Mahatma Gandhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gandhi in the uniform of a sergeant of the Indian Ambulance Corps.
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).
Gandhi is referred to in an episode of the sitcom Seinfeld, "The Old Man", as having an affair with one of the minor characters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi   (8763 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi, , Legends, Mahatma Gandhi profile, "More than his words, his life was his message". These ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Mahatma Gandhi,, Legends, Mahatma Gandhi profile, "More than his words, his life was his message".
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 suite, the plowed field to the belching manufactory.
Gandhi began by believing that the politics of passive resistance and nonviolence should be effective in any situation, at any time, even against a force as malign as Nazi Germany.
www.4to40.com /legends/index.asp?article=legends_mahatmagandhi   (1676 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi - Wikipedia
Gandhi wurde als jüngstes von fünf Kindern in der vierten Ehe seines Vaters Karamchand Gandhi geboren.
Mahatma Gandhi stammte aus einer wohlhabenden aber traditionellen Familie und wurde bereits 1883 im Alter von 13 Jahren durch seine Familie mit der gleichaltrigen Kasturba Nakanji verheiratet.
Das Leben des Mahatma Gandhi wurde 1982 von Richard Attenborough erfolgreich verfilmt.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi   (1164 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)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - später Mahatma (Sanskrit: »dessen Seele groß ist«) genannt - wird in Porbandar (Nordwestindien) als jüngster Sohn von Karamchand Gandhi und dessen vierter Frau Putlibai geboren.
Gandhi selbst wollte lieber Medizin studieren, beugt sich aber dem Willen seiner Familie.
Gandhi wird dort mit der Rassendiskriminierung der Inder konfrontiert.
www.friedensinitiative-bruchsal.de /personen/gandhi_m.html   (960 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.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/8522/gand_eng.html   (2187 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate
Gandhi was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 and, finally, a few days before he was murdered in January 1948.
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.
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948, two days before the closing date for that year's Nobel Peace Prize nominations.
www.nobel.se /peace/articles/gandhi   (2668 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi hero file
Gandhi is appalled by the treatment they receive in the racist society of South Africa and begins a campaign for their civil rights.
Gandhi describes the Rowlatt Acts as "instruments of oppression" and begins a campaign of resistance or 'Satyagraha' (the devotion to truth or truth force) against them and British rule.
Gandhi is allowed to attend her cremation but is then returned to prison.
www.moreorless.au.com /heroes/gandhi.html   (2269 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi —
Gandhi urged non-violence and civil disobedience as a means to independence from Great Britain, with public acts of defiance that landed him in jail several times.
Gandhi was one of the leading Indian politicians of the Indian independence movement.
Gandhi was also devoted to promoting the underlying harmony of the different religious traditions.
www.writespirit.net /authors/mahatma_gandhi   (339 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate
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.
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948, two days before the closing date for that year's Nobel Peace Prize nominations.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/peace/articles/gandhi/index.html   (2668 words)

  
 GandhiServe Foundation - Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service
In co-operation with Gandhi's family, his associates and contemporaries, we safeguard documents, photographs and films, and make them available for exhibitions, publications, and research.
The ethic of nonviolence, as practised and cultivated by Mahatma Gandhi, live on, regardless of national or political boundaries.
The purpose of the foundation - the promotion of science, cultural and historical research, and education - is achieved through academic and non-academic research projects on Mahatma Gandhi as well as through educational projects which propagate peace, the ethic of nonviolence, and the memory of Mahatma Gandhi and his teaching.
www.gandhiserve.org   (379 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi on education
Gandhi was quite certain that any village could become such a republic straight away without much interference even from the colonial government because he beleived that their sole effective connection with the villages was the collection of village taxes.
Gandhi’s basic education was, therefore, an embodiment of his perception of an ideal society consisting of small, self-reliant communities with his ideal citizen being an industrious, self-respecting and generous individual living in a small co­operative community.
Gandhi’s conception of basic education was concerned with learning that was generated within everyday life which is the basis on which informal educators work.
www.infed.org /thinkers/et-gand.htm   (2986 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi Memorial - Washington D.C.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial - Washington D.C. (1869-1948) was a pivotal world figure of the 20th century.
Gandhi renounced all worldly possession, devoting his life to work for the dignity and uplift of the downtrodden.
Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister of India dedicated the Gandhi Memorial in the distinguished presence of H.E. William J. Clinton, President of the United States on September 16, 2000 during his state visit to the United States.
www.indianembassy.org /gandhi   (92 words)

  
 A Nutshell Biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of Non-violence
Gandhi fought numerous cases on legal grounds and although he won many, the net change in the status of the conditions of the Indians was minimal, because the government kept on introducing and passing new bills which effectively annulled every victory.
Gandhi pursued journalism not for its sake but also as an aid to what he had conceived to be his mission in life: to teach by example and precept.
Gandhi was invited first to have a series of talks with the Viceroy in India, and then to attend a Round Table Conference in London.
www.ssinha.com /biogandhi.htm   (2784 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi - An Average Man - Nadesan Satyendra
That Gandhi's words are increasingly quoted by today's management gurus is a reflection of the deep underlying truths that Gandhi had touched in his own life - deep underlying truths which have a broad relevance to all human endeavour.
For Gandhi, Ahimsa or non violence was not an expression of cowardice or weakness.
Gandhi, a seditious middle temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the viceregal palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the king-emperor..."
www.tamilnation.org /saty/9805gandhi.htm   (3981 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Poorbandar, Kathiawar, on the western coast of India.
Gandhi was released from custody unconditionally in the spring of 1944.
Gandhi pleaded for amicable settlement between India and Pakistan, but on January 30, 1948, he was assassinated in Delhi on his way to an evening prayer.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /gandhi.htm   (1735 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi had accepted an invitation in 1893 to represent indentured Indian laborers in South Africa, where he stayed on for more than twenty years, emerging ultimately as the voice and conscience of thousands who had been subjected to blatant racial discrimination.
Mahatma Gandhi's first nationwide satyagraha was too late to influence the framing of the new Government of India Act of 1919, the magnitude of disorder resulting from the movement was unparalleled and presented a new challenge to foreign rule.
Mahatma Gandhi reemerged from his long seclusion by undertaking his most inspired campaign, a march of about 400 kilometers from his commune in Ahmadabad to Dandi, on the coast of Gujarat between March 12 and April 6, 1930.
www.indianchild.com /mahatma_gandhi1.htm   (1133 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi was one of the gentlest of men, a devout and almost mystical Hindu, but he had an iron core of determination.
Tushar Gandhi, the Mahatma's great-grandson, performed the act of dispersing the remains as thousands of onlookers chanted slogans in remembrance of the man who had succeeded, however briefly, in unifying a nation historically divided along religious and ethnic lines.
Approximately 20 urns were filled with ashes of the fallen leader, and the urns were transported throughout the country to comply with Gandhi's wish that his remains be immersed in the rivers of the country.
www.vov.com /leaders/gandhi.html   (864 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi Rejected Zionism
Gandhi's major statement on the Palestine and the Jewish question came forth in his widely circulated editorial in the Harijan of 11 November 1938, a time when intense struggle between the Palestinian Arabs and the immigrant Jews had been on the anvil in Palestine.
Gandhi, in his role as leader of the national struggle and the Indian National Congress (the organization embodying that struggle), had been actively engaged during the 1930s and 1940s in moulding the perception of the people of India to the nationalist and anti-imperialist struggles in the Arab world.
Gandhi went back to his initial position by categorically stating that "But in my opinion, they [the Jews] have erred grievously in seeking to impose themselves on Palestine with the aid of America and Britain and now with the aid of naked terrorism...
www.twf.org /News/Y2001/0815-GandhiZionism.html   (1519 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi organized in 1930 a 24 - day march to the sea and produced salt from the sea.
Mahatma Gandhi who became the leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920 did not always lead the Indian nationalist movement.
During these riots Gandhi, who was a Hindu, tried to be a middleman between Hindus and Muslims.
adaniel.tripod.com /mahatma.htm   (839 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths (Gandhi, Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, Non-Violence, Satyagraha)
Gandhi objected when people called him “a saint trying to be a politician.” He said he was instead “a politician trying to be a saint.” Personally, I go along with Gandhi’s judgment on this.
Gandhi and his colleagues were the ones who developed this wheel and introduced it into the villages.
Gandhi is often called “the father of nonviolence.” Well, he did raise nonviolent action to a level never before achieved.
www.markshep.com /nonviolence/Myths.html   (5335 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service - MAHATMA - LIFE OF GANDHI, 1869-1948
The Gandhi National Memorial Trust has made a humble attempt to perpetuate Gandhi's memory by presenting the first complete biographical documentary film of his life which, in a large measure, reflects the history of India's struggle for freedom.
The film depicts Gandhi's struggle against untouchability for the recognition of human dignity, his epic fast in the prison in pursuance of the noble cause and his whirlwind tour of the country shaking the citadels of orthodoxy, spreading a spirit of reform and rejuvenation.
Gandhi identified himself with the Indian masses, donned the loin-cloth and preached disaffection towards the unjust government.
streams.gandhiserve.org /mahatma.html   (1383 words)

  
 Gandhi Audio of My Spiritual Message 1931   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
K. Gandhi was born in Porbandar, a village in Gujarat province in India in 1869.
Gandhi was visiting London in connection with the Second Round Table Conference to broker a peave between colonial Britain and the broad Indian freedom movement.
This recording was optimized by the musician Max Flury in 2006, and part of the musical CD Gandhi 1001 Ways by Andreas Huber.
www.harappa.com /sounds/gandhi.html   (284 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi | Indian Spiritual/Political Leader and Humanitarian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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.
The Gandhis had four sons: Harilal and Manilal, born in India, and Ramdas and Devdas born in South Africa.
While Gandhi displayed loving kindness to everyone else, he was quite demanding and severe with his wife and sons.
www2.lucidcafe.com /lucidcafe/library/95oct/mkgandhi.html   (767 words)

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