Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi mostly called (Great Soul)

born in 1869- assassinated in 1948

Memoiren of Gandhi

>>The  future depends on what you do today<< 

  Die Zukunft hängt davon ab, was du heute tust.

>>Truth never demages a cause that is just<<

Wahrheit schadet nie einer Sache die gerecht ist.

>>You must be the change you want to see in the world<<

Du musst die Veränderung sein. die du in der Welt sehen möchtest.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

mostly called Mahatma Gandhi / mehata/.from Sanskrit,Mahatma. „Great Soul“ (* 2. October 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat; † 30. January 1948 in Neu-Delhi, Delhi), was the spiritual and political leader of the Indian independence movement. His concept of Satyagraha (literally "sticking to the truth")  was based on truthfulness and an active, but non-violent resistance. He led India to independence. In India, he was awarded the honorary title of "father of the nation". His birthday, the second October every year is celebrated as a holiday in India.

 

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1869         MG was born on the 2nd of October 1869 in Porbandar in India as Mohandas       

             Karamchand Gandhi. His father was the Prime Minister  of the principality of

             Porbandar.(*low caste)

1876        primary school in Rajkot

1881        high school in Rajkot

1883         married to Kasturba  (*at the age of thirteen, he was married through an 

             arrangement to Kastruba  Makharji.)

1885         Father died at age of 63

1888        First of four sons was born

1891        Sailed from Bombay to England to study law.

1891-1893 layer in Bombay

     1893     April Sailed to South Africa to become lawyer for an Indian film. (*Brithen control   

                  South Africa)

     1893     Found himself subjected to all kinds of color discrimination.

1893-1914 he struggled for Indias  independence. During the time he developed the concept

                  of  the  Satyagraha (*non-violent resistance) (*Festhalten an der 

                  Wahrheit   ( *gewaltlosen Wiederstand)

1894 May  Organised Natal Indian Congress (*The Indians fight against race discrimination       

                  in South Africa)

    1899     G.moved 1100 Indian s to help the British colonial regime in the war-without   

                 violencenly sanitary service

    1902     Returned to South Africa
    1903        Summer: opened law office in Johannesburg.
    1907     Indians must keep a registrations act with themself to identify always

           G. + 3000 pendants start resistance.
1914        Gandhi left South Africa forever, went to India and fought for  the independence
             movement

1920        Gandhi becomes the leader of the Indian National Congress (INC)  (*importent
             instrument of  i.m )
 1922-1924   Mahatma Gandhi was in a British prison.The British magistrates gave  him 6 years
            for  disobedience.

      1923     Wrote Satyagraha in South Africa and part of his autobiography in the prison.

1930        Mohatma Gandhi leads a 200 meter (300 km) march leading thousands of Indians

             to the Indian ocean to make their own salt, protesting against the British salt   
             monopoly and the salt tax.“Salt Satyagraha“(*Festhalten an der Wahrheit)

1930-1932   Saltmarsh against the Britsh salt monopoly

                    Civil disobedience campaign prompted all EnglishTaxes refuse (v.a. salt tax))Salt

                    march against the British salt monopoly in global media coverage:Salt production

                    for personal use went into Indian handsabout Gandhi's first participation in a

                    round-table conference London, Encounter with Charlie Chaplin.

      1932     Gandhi's re-imprisonment, hunger strike committed to the equal rights of men  

                    and women

      1942     Gandhi asks Britain for immediate independence, re-imprisonment (up to 44),           

                   strikes and demonstrations

      1947     India's independence and partition into two states: India(predominantly Hindu)       

             and Pakistan (Muslim majority); Gandhi's influence curbs civil war unrest

             M.G.hade bee an advocate for a united India where hindus and muslims lived 

             together in peace.

† 30. January 1948      Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was killed by three gunshots.    

                                                          (*by Nathuram Godse (fanatical,Hindu nationalist)

                                                                          Scatter the ashes in the Ganges.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is a symbol of non violent and peace all over the world.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Born 2 October 1869
Porbandar, Gujarat, British India Died 30 January 1948 (aged 78)
New Delhi, Dominion of India Cause of death Assassination by shooting Resting place Cremated at Rajghat, Delhi. Quelle:Wikip.