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Mohandas Gandhi the man was complex and flawed. However, Mahatma Gandhi the public figure left an indelible mark on the history of India and on the exercise of civil disobedience worldwide.
If each puts the cause first and himself last, the vacuum will to a large extent be filled. All rights reserved. Culture Explainer. How Mahatma Gandhi changed political protest His non-violent resistance helped end British rule in India and has influenced modern civil disobedience movements across the globe. Widely referred to as Mahatma, meaning great soul or saint in Sanskrit, Gandhi helped India reach independence through a philosophy of non-violent non-cooperation.
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In defiance of British authority, Gandhi led thousands of people on a mile march to the sea where he picked up a pinch of salt.
This sparked a mass movement among the people all over the country to gather and make their own salt. Gandhi was arrested and jailed, but his followers marched to take over the government salt works. Colonial troops attacked the marchers with clubs. But true to Gandhi's principle of non-violence, the protesters took the blows without striking back.
Gandhi explained, I want world sympathy in this battle of Right against Might. Gandhi now held the attention of the world, which pressured the British to negotiate with Indian leaders on a plan for self-rule. The British, however, stalled the process by making proposals that aggravated Indian caste and religious divisions.
The Mahatma decided that he had to do everything he could to eliminate Hindu prejudice and discrimination against the untouchables if India were ever to become a truly free nation. In , he announced a fast unto death" as part of his campaign to achieve equality for this downtrodden caste.
Gandhi ended his fast when some progress was made toward this goal, but he never achieved full equality for the Children of God. Gandhi also dreamed of a united as well as a free India. But distrust between the two factions led to increasing calls for partitioning India into separate Hindu and Muslim homelands. Britain's prime minister, Winston Churchill , declared, "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
When the British people voted out Churchill's government in , Indian independence became inevitable. But the problem was how the Hindu majority and Muslim minority would share power in India. Distrust spilled over into violence between the two religious groups as the Muslims demanded a separate part of India for their own nation, which they would call Pakistan.
Disheartened by the religious hatred and violence, Gandhi spoke to both Hindus and Muslims, encouraging peace and forgiveness. He opposed dividing the country into Hindu and Muslim nations, believing in one unified India. Finally, in May , British, Muslim, and Hindu political leaders reached an agreement for independence that Gandhi did not support.
The agreement created a Hindu-dominated India and a Muslim Pakistan. As Independence Day August 15, approached, an explosion of Hindu and Muslim looting, rape, and murder erupted throughout the land.
Millions of Hindus and Muslims fled their homes, crossing the borders into India or Pakistan. Gandhi traveled to the areas of violence, trying to calm the people.
In January , he announced that he would fast until a reunion of hearts of all communities had been achieved. At age 78, he weakened rapidly. But he did not break his fast until Hindu and Muslim leaders came to him pledging peace. On January 30, , an assassin shot and killed the Great Soul of India while he was attending a prayer meeting.
The assassin was a Hindu who believed Gandhi had sold out to the Muslims. Sadly, the peace he had brokered between Hindus and Muslims did not last. The ancient hatreds remained. War has erupted between India and Pakistan several times, and the two countries remain hostile to one another to this day. Hundreds of thousands answered his call to protest, and by he was leader of the Indian movement for independence.
Always nonviolent, he asserted the unity of all people under one God and preached Christian and Muslim ethics along with his Hindu teachings. The British authorities jailed him several times, but his following was so great that he was always released.
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