Here is a brief summary of some of the major facts associated with Mahatma Gandhi.
These facts highlight some of the major achievements of Mohandas Gandhi and provide valuable information on Mahatama Gandhi.
- Birth: October 2, 1869
- Death: January 30, 1948
- Place of Birth: Porbandar, Gujarat
- Father: Karamchand Gandhi
- Mother: Putlibai
- Wife: Katurbai
- 1888-1891: Studied law in London
- 1893: Sailed for South Africa
- 1906: Began Satyagraha campaign in South Africa to protest the requirement that Indians be fingerprinted and carry identification cards
- 1915: Returned to India from South Africa
- 1917: Initiated Champaran Satyagraha to alleviate the condition of indigo planters
- 1919: Instituted Satyagraha campaign in India to protest the Rowlatt Acts, which deprived all Indians of important civil liberties.
- 1922: Ended Non-Cooperation movement against British Raj after his followers were involved in a series of riots and disturbances that violated his policy of nonviolence
- 1930: Led Dandi March to collect salt in protest of the British salt tax.
- 1931: Signed a pact with Lord Irwin to suspend the Civil Disobedience Movement and went to London to attend Round Table Conference.
- 1932: Fasted to protest the treatment of people who belonged to no Hindu caste, the Harijans or Untouchables
- 1942: Launched Quit India Movement against British Raj.
- January 30, 1948: Assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
Quotes Of Mahatma::
- Abstinence is forgiveness only when there is power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature.
- Action for one's own self binds, action for the sake of others delivers from bondage.
- What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?
- You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance.
- Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill. - Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
- True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
- The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die. - Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.
- No power on earth can subjugate you when you are armed with the sword of ahimsa. It ennobles both the victor and the vanquished.
- The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
- The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.
- The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
- I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.
- God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
