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It may be noted later that he is called "Sant Sri Asaramji Bapu" by his followers. Gandhi in Ahmedabad, on the day after the massacre in Amritsar, did not criticise the British and instead criticised his fellow countrymen for not exclusively using love to deal with the hate of the British government. But he dropped out and returned to his family in Porbandar. [383], Gandhi was a prolific writer. The Hindu leader, Tej Bahadur Sapru, declared in 1941, states Herman, "A good many Congress leaders are fed up with the barren program of the Mahatma". It was Rabindranath Tagore who bestowed the title of Mahatama to Gandhi ji in March 1915 while writing his autobiography. To both, according to Bhatt, removing poverty and unemployment were the objective, but the Gandhian economic and development approach preferred adapting technology and infrastructure to suit the local situation, in contrast to Nehru's large scale, socialised state owned enterprises. He stated that spiritual studies must encourage "a Hindu to become a better Hindu, a Mussalman to become a better Mussalman, and a Christian a better Christian. The latter two claimed that it distorted what Gandhi actually said on a range of topics and falsely repudiated the Quit India movement. Every revolution begins with a single act of defiance. Gandhi called for political involvement; he was a nationalist and was prepared to use nonviolent force. After Gandhi's arrest, the women marched and picketed shops on their own, accepting violence and verbal abuse from British authorities for the cause in a manner Gandhi inspired. [143] The British side sought reforms that would keep Indian subcontinent as a colony. They went down like ninepins. His reply was in response to the question 'Who was the one person, dead or live, that you would choose to dine with?'. [341] In February 1947, he asked his confidants such as Birla and Ramakrishna if it was wrong for him to experiment his brahmacharya oath. On 6 April 1919, a Hindu festival day, he asked a crowd to remember not to injure or kill British people, but to express their frustration with peace, to boycott British goods and burn any British clothing they owned. It arms the individual with moral power rather than physical power. [109][103][105], Gandhi expanded his nonviolent non-co-operation platform to include the swadeshi policy – the boycott of foreign-made goods, especially British goods. During this period, his long time secretary Mahadev Desai died of a heart attack, his wife Kasturba died after 18 months' imprisonment on 22 February 1944; and Gandhi suffered a severe malaria attack. He wrote his views down on paper but shyness prevented him from reading out his arguments, so Hills, the President, asked another committee member to read them out for him. [401] Others include Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan,[402] Steve Biko, and Aung San Suu Kyi. He opposed purdah, child marriage, dowry and sati. Gandhi took Gokhale's liberal approach based on British Whiggish traditions and transformed it to make it look Indian. [359], According to Gandhi, a non-violent state is like an "ordered anarchy". Gandhi also wanted to avoid being a target for Raj propaganda by leading a party that had temporarily accepted political accommodation with the Raj. He went on to stay for 21 years. [334] Rajchandra advised him that milk stimulated sexual passion. [126], After his early release from prison for political crimes in 1924, over the second half of the 1920s, Gandhi continued to pursue swaraj. On 5 May he was interned under a regulation dating from 1827 in anticipation of a protest that he had planned. Dear Student, The year 1919 marked the entry of Mahatma Gandhi in the freedom struggle that changed the course of national movement spreading to new areas, incorporating new social groups and developing new modes of struggle. Gandhi's private secretary noted that "The question of the consistency between his creed of 'Ahimsa' (nonviolence) and his recruiting campaign was raised not only then but has been discussed ever since. "[399] King sometimes referred to Gandhi as "the little brown saint. [422] Decades later, the Nobel Committee publicly declared its regret for the omission, and admitted to deeply divided nationalistic opinion denying the award. [298], Gandhi believed that his long acquaintance with Christianity had made him like it as well as find it imperfect. Bapu would go for a walk each morning and evening. [310], Gandhi was brought up as a vegetarian by his devout Hindu mother. [58], Gandhi, at age 22, was called to the bar in June 1891 and then left London for India, where he learned that his mother had died while he was in London and that his family had kept the news from him. [90], Gandhi took leadership of the Congress in 1920 and began escalating demands until on 26 January 1930 the Indian National Congress declared the independence of India. As the war progressed, Gandhi intensified his demand for independence, calling for the British to Quit India in a 1942 speech in Mumbai. "Gandhi in the Mind of America. The conference was a disappointment to Gandhi and the nationalists. [441] Lelyveld, however, stated that the press coverage "grossly distort[s]" the overall message of the book. At UCL, he studied law and jurisprudence and was invited to enroll at Inner Temple with the intention of becoming a barrister. [33][34] Gandhi's father was of Modh Baniya caste in the varna of Vaishya. [249] I. Bruce Watson states that some of these ideas are found not only in traditions within Hinduism, but also in Jainism or Buddhism, particularly those about non-violence, vegetarianism and universal love, but Gandhi's synthesis was to politicise these ideas. He would put his hands on the shoulders of those either side. [356][357], Nai Talim evolved out of his experiences at the Tolstoy Farm in South Africa, and Gandhi attempted to formulate the new system at the Sevagram ashram after 1937. [368][369] Gandhi believed that people who demand religious respect and rights must also show the same respect and grant the same rights to followers of other religions. This was highlighted by the Salt March to Dandi from 12 March to 6 April, where, together with 78 volunteers, he marched 388 kilometres (241 mi) from Ahmedabad to Dandi, Gujarat to make salt himself, with the declared intention of breaking the salt laws. It was based on the biography by Louis Fischer. Gandhi ji gave the title 'Gurudev' to Tagore. His experiments with food began in the 1890s and continued for several decades. [347] He accused Gandhi as someone who wished to retain the caste system. At other times, he acknowledged that he knew little about Buddhism other than his reading of Edwin Arnold's book on it. I may change them tomorrow. "[276], In a post-war interview in 1946, he said, "Hitler killed five million Jews. In 1930, Gandhi wrote, "Such was the man who captivated my heart in religious matters as no other man ever has till now. Gandhi reiterated his stance that "the Jews seek to convert the Arab heart", and use "satyagraha in confronting the Arabs" in 1947. [12] Some Indians thought Gandhi was too accommodating. In the months following, he undertook several fasts unto death to stop religious violence. He was also willing to compromise. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. Asaram Bapu (Files) Convicted on Friday in the 2013 case of a minor’s rape, Asaram Bapu, who has often called himself a “bhagwan”, faces rape charges in another case where two sisters from Gujarat have claimed that Asaram and his son Narayan Sai sexually assaulted them on many occassions and confined them illegally between 2001 and 2006 at one of their ashrams. In parallel, Gandhi's fellowmen became sceptical of his pacifist ideas and were inspired by the ideas of nationalism and anti-imperialism. 17). On 13 April 1919, people including women with children gathered in an Amritsar park, and a British officer named Reginald Dyer surrounded them and ordered his troops to fire on them. In 1931, notable European physicist Albert Einstein exchanged written letters with Gandhi, and called him "a role model for the generations to come" in a letter writing about him. [47] Gandhi, then 16 years old, and his wife of age 17 had their first baby, who survived only a few days. Recent scholars question these romantic biographies and state that Gandhi was neither a Christian figure nor mirrored a Christian saint. Gandhi had a clash with Subhas Chandra Bose, who had been elected president in 1938, and who had previously expressed a lack of faith in nonviolence as a means of protest. Jinnah rejected this proposal and insisted instead for partitioning the subcontinent on religious lines to create a separate Muslim India (later Pakistan). A spokesperson for Asaram’s ashram called the case an attempt to tarnish his image. They were auxiliaries at the Battle of Colenso to a White volunteer ambulance corps. [84], In 1906, when the British declared war against the Zulu Kingdom in Natal, Gandhi at age 36, sympathised with the Zulus and encouraged the Indian volunteers to help as an ambulance unit. [405] Einstein said of Gandhi: Mahatma Gandhi's life achievement stands unique in political history. [120], People rioted. In the song Porter rhymes "Mahatma Gandhi' with "Napoleon Brandy. [422] Gandhi was nominated in 1948 but was assassinated before nominations closed. In Europe, Romain Rolland was the first to discuss Gandhi in his 1924 book Mahatma Gandhi, and Brazilian anarchist and feminist Maria Lacerda de Moura wrote about Gandhi in her work on pacifism. Wavell accused Gandhi of harbouring the single minded idea to "overthrow British rule and influence and to establish a Hindu raj", and called Gandhi a "malignant, malevolent, exceedingly shrewd" politician. He initially was not interested in politics. [312][315], Gandhi believed that some life forms are more capable of suffering, and non-violence to him meant not having the intent as well as active efforts to minimise hurt, injury or suffering to all life forms. According to Raymond Williams, Toothi may have overlooked the influence of the Jain community, and adds close parallels do exist in programs of social reform in the Swaminarayan tradition and those of Gandhi, based on "nonviolence, truth-telling, cleanliness, temperance and upliftment of the masses. Bringing anti-colonial nationalism to the common Indians, Gandhi led them in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. [253], The essence of Satyagraha is "soul force" as a political means, refusing to use brute force against the oppressor, seeking to eliminate antagonisms between the oppressor and the oppressed, aiming to transform or "purify" the oppressor. [303], According to Kumaraswamy, Gandhi initially supported Arab demands with respect to Palestine. [422] In the summer of 1995, the North American Vegetarian Society inducted him posthumously into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame. [289], One of the strategies Gandhi adopted was to work with Muslim leaders of pre-partition India, to oppose the British imperialism in and outside the Indian subcontinent. [22], Although he only had an elementary education and had previously been a clerk in the state administration, Karamchand proved a capable chief minister. The place near Yamuna river where he was cremated is the Rāj Ghāt memorial in New Delhi. Gokhale was a key leader of the Congress Party best known for his restraint and moderation, and his insistence on working inside the system. [238], Gandhi was acquainted with Sufi Islam's Chishti Order during his stay in South Africa. This effort of Gandhi was in part motivated by the British promise to reciprocate the help with swaraj (self-government) to Indians after the end of World War I. [71] However, a new Natal government discriminatory proposal led to Gandhi extending his original period of stay in South Africa. [219], Additional theories of possible influences on Gandhi have been proposed. [57] It would have been hard for Gandhi to challenge Hills; Hills was 12 years his senior and unlike Gandhi, highly eloquent. Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, the Muslim League Chief Minister of Bengal – now Bangladesh and West Bengal, gave Calcutta's police special holiday to celebrate the Direct Action Day. Manu stated that the experiment had no "ill effect" on her. [355] Nehru government's vision of an industrialised, centrally planned economy after 1947 had scant place for Gandhi's village-oriented approach. [280], Gandhi believed that Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism were traditions of Hinduism, with a shared history, rites and ideas. "[182], In 1938, Gandhi stated that his "sympathies are all with the Jews. [320][321] For some of these experiments, Gandhi combined his own ideas with those found on diet in Indian yoga texts. His methodology sought to treat all professions equal and pay everyone the same. The ‘forgotten’ Mahatma called Bapu; This story is from October 3, 2011. ", Power, Paul F. "Toward a Revaluation of Gandhi's Political Thought. [447] Gandhi's date of death, 30 January, is commemorated as a Martyrs' Day in India. [97] M. M. Sankhdher argues that Gandhism is not a systematic position in metaphysics or in political philosophy. He believed that a healthy nutritional diet based on regional foods and hygiene were essential to good health. Thus, satya (truth) in Gandhi's philosophy is "God". Gandhi favoured an education system with far greater emphasis on learning skills in practical and useful work, one that included physical, mental and spiritual studies. [68], When Gandhi arrived in South Africa, according to Herman, he thought of himself as "a Briton first, and an Indian second". Gandhi summarised his beliefs first when he said "God is Truth". (eds.) Bapu is a word for “father” in many Indian languages such as Gujarati and Marathi. Gajanan watches him intently. At this point Gandhi called off the struggle, and around 100,000 political prisoners were released, including the Congress's leadership. Further, it would also show the British that his fellow Indians were "their subjects by choice rather than out of cowardice." [189][190] They were tried in court at Delhi's Red Fort. His vision of a village-dominated economy was shunted aside during his lifetime as rural romanticism, and his call for a national ethos of personal austerity and nonviolence has proved antithetical to the goals of an aspiring economic and military power." Danielson, Leilah C. "'In My Extremity I Turned to Gandhi': American Pacifists, Christianity, and Gandhian Nonviolence, 1915–1941. For example, Muslim leaders such as Jinnah opposed the satyagraha idea, accused Gandhi to be reviving Hinduism through political activism, and began effort to counter Gandhi with Muslim nationalism and a demand for Muslim homeland. [200] Most of the ashes were immersed at the Sangam at Allahabad on 12 February 1948, but some were secretly taken away. Sai blesses him. [67] Indians were not allowed to walk on public footpaths in South Africa. [328] In his own life however, according to Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert, Gandhi's relationship with his wife were at odds with some of these values. His Name is Bapu. [150] Ambedkar and Gandhi debated their ideas and concerns, each trying to persuade the other. ‘Was Bapu anti-technology?’ – many scholars and academicians have debated this question time and again. [361][362] Tewari states that Gandhi saw democracy as more than a system of government; it meant promoting both individuality and the self-discipline of the community. There he died about 30 minutes later as one of Gandhi's family members read verses from Hindu scriptures. ", This page was last edited on 24 December 2020, at 09:23. In 2000, a revised edition of the complete works sparked a controversy, as it contained a large number of errors and omissions. Among them was one of Gandhi's lieutenants, Jawaharlal Nehru. [103][107][108][109], The increasing Muslim support for Gandhi, after he championed the Caliph's cause, temporarily stopped the Hindu-Muslim communal violence. * Dr. Aniruddha Dhairyadhar Joshi (Bapu) spent most of his early childhood at his maternal grandmother's place. The government quelled any opposition to its economic and social policies, despite these being contrary to Gandhi's ideas, by reconstructing Gandhi's image and ideals. The developments heightened Churchill's anxiety that the "British themselves would give up out of pacifism and misplaced conscience". This campaign was one of his most successful at upsetting British hold on India; Britain responded by imprisoning over 60,000 people. The resulting Jallianwala Bagh massacre (or Amritsar massacre) of hundreds of Sikh and Hindu civilians enraged the subcontinent, but was cheered by some Britons and parts of the British media as an appropriate response. [376][377] Historian Kuruvilla Pandikattu says "it was Nehru's vision, not Gandhi's, that was eventually preferred by the Indian State. [327], Gandhi strongly favoured the emancipation of women, and urged "the women to fight for their own self-development." [424], Indians widely describe Gandhi as the father of the nation. [283] He also read the Islamic prophet Muhammad's biography, and argued that it was "not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. That year, the committee chose not to award the peace prize stating that "there was no suitable living candidate" and later research shows that the possibility of awarding the prize posthumously to Gandhi was discussed and that the reference to no suitable living candidate was to Gandhi. [408] At the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in 2007, former US Vice-President and environmentalist Al Gore spoke of Gandhi's influence on him.[409]. [7][8], Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, western India, Gandhi trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, and was called to the bar at age 22 in June 1891. [206][207], Gandhi grew up in a Hindu and Jain religious atmosphere in his native Gujarat, which were his primary influences, but he was also influenced by his personal reflections and literature of Hindu Bhakti saints, Advaita Vedanta, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, and thinkers such as Tolstoy, Ruskin and Thoreau. Although some other members of the committee agreed with Gandhi, the vote was lost and Allinson excluded. [380], While disagreeing with Nehru about the socialist economic model, Gandhi also critiqued capitalism that was driven by endless wants and a materialistic view of man. [147] He based himself in a small cell-bedroom at Kingsley Hall for the three-month duration of his stay and was enthusiastically received by East Enders. Gandhi and the Congress withdrew their support of the Raj when the Viceroy declared war on Germany in September 1939 without consultation. He ended up doing so much and changed the world just by the power of his ethics. "[96], Gandhi's war recruitment campaign brought into question his consistency on nonviolence. In 1909, Gandhi wrote to Tolstoy seeking advice and permission to republish A Letter to a Hindu in Gujarati. [136], According to Dennis Dalton, it was the ideas that were responsible for his wide following. [363], Some scholars state Gandhi supported a religiously diverse India,[364] while others state that the Muslim leaders who championed the partition and creation of a separate Muslim Pakistan considered Gandhi to be Hindu nationalist or revivalist. While he was in prison, the British government enacted a new law that granted untouchables a separate electorate. Further, believed Gandhi, in a free nation, victims exist only when they co-operate with their oppressor, and an economic and political system that offered increasing alternatives gave power of choice to the poorest man. His views on women's rights were less liberal and more similar to puritan-Victorian expectations of women, states Jayawardena, than other Hindu leaders with him who supported economic independence and equal gender rights in all aspects. Gandhi had already supported the British crown with resources and by recruiting Indian soldiers to fight the war in Europe on the British side. [439][440], Several biographers have undertaken the task of describing Gandhi's life. Therefore, non-co-operation in Satyagraha is in fact a means to secure the co-operation of the opponent consistently with truth and justice. [61] Though unable to halt the bill's passage, his campaign was successful in drawing attention to the grievances of Indians in South Africa. On 30 March 1919, British law officers opened fire on an assembly of unarmed people, peacefully gathered, participating in satyagraha in Delhi. [313][314] Gandhi's rationale for vegetarianism was largely along those found in Hindu and Jain texts. [161] The British government responded quickly to the Quit India speech, and within hours after Gandhi's speech arrested Gandhi and all the members of the Congress Working Committee. For other uses, see, Civil rights activist in South Africa (1893–1914), Struggle for Indian independence (1915–1947), On life, society and other application of his ideas, Brahmacharya: abstinence from sex and food. [385], Gandhi also wrote several books including his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Gujarātī "સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા"), of which he bought the entire first edition to make sure it was reprinted. The question deeply interested me...I had a high regard for Mr. Hills and his generosity. [110][111] His support for the Khilafat movement also helped him sideline Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who had announced his opposition to the satyagraha non-co-operation movement approach of Gandhi. He had advised Gandhi to be patient and to study Hinduism deeply. [380] To Gandhi, states Parekh, both communism and capitalism were wrong, in part because both focused exclusively on a materialistic view of man, and because the former deified the state with unlimited power of violence, while the latter deified capital. Gandhi cited race history and European Orientalists' opinions that "Anglo-Saxons and Indians are sprung from the same Aryan stock or rather the Indo-European peoples", and argued that Indians should not be grouped with the Africans. Bapu Saheb picks it up. At the battle of Spion Kop Gandhi and his bearers moved to the front line and had to carry wounded soldiers for miles to a field hospital because the terrain was too rough for the ambulances. [247], Gandhi based Satyagraha on the Vedantic ideal of self-realization, ahimsa (nonviolence), vegetarianism, and universal love. [298] According to Eric Sharpe – a professor of Religious Studies, though Gandhi was born in a Hindu family and later became Hindu by conviction, many Christians in time thought of him as an "exemplary Christian and even as a saint". [104][105][106] Gandhi's support to the Khilafat movement led to mixed results. Neha Shukla | TNN | Updated: Oct 3, 2011, 04:50 IST. [124], The appeal of "Non-cooperation" grew, its social popularity drew participation from all strata of Indian society. However, his image was far from pristine. [371] This, states Bhatt, was a very different economic model than the socialism model championed and followed by free India by Nehru – India's first prime minister. At the age of 5, he used to listen to his grandmother, Amrit Ma’s folktales and his grandfather Tribhovandasji’s singing of the Ramcharitmanas Hymnes (Chaupais). Gandhi was kicked by a police officer out of the footpath onto the street without warning. He told the British people in 1940, "I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. Since then he is being fondly called "Bapu" by everyone. Gandhi's life and teachings inspired many who specifically referred to Gandhi as their mentor or who dedicated their lives to spreading Gandhi's ideas. Gandhi and thirty-seven other Indians received the Queen's South Africa Medal. [85] He argued that Indians should participate in the war efforts to change attitudes and perceptions of the British people against the coloured people. They encouraged Gandhi to join them in reading the Bhagavad Gita both in translation as well as in the original.[56]. The University of Nagpur awarded him an LL.D. [359] In a society of mostly non-violent individuals, those who are violent will sooner or later accept discipline or leave the community, stated Gandhi. [332], Gandhi's experiment with abstinence went beyond sex, and extended to food. [97], In 1918, Kheda was hit by floods and famine and the peasantry was demanding relief from taxes. This changed, however, after he was discriminated against and bullied, such as by being thrown out of a train coach because of his skin colour by a white train official. The protest at Dharasana salt works on 21 May went ahead without its leader, Gandhi. [330][331], Along with many other texts, Gandhi studied Bhagavad Gita while in South Africa. Much has been said and written about the Father of the Nation, who is fondly called as Bapu. [102] Gandhi announced his satyagraha (civil disobedience) intentions. [142] Churchill attempted to isolate Gandhi, and his criticism of Gandhi was widely covered by European and American press. In August 1947 the British partitioned the land with India and Pakistan each achieving independence on terms that Gandhi disapproved. According to Arthur Herman, Gandhi wanted to disprove the imperial British stereotype that Hindus were not fit for "manly" activities involving danger and exertion, unlike the Muslim "martial races". [283] He stated in 1925 that he did not criticise the teachings of the Quran, but he did criticise the interpreters of the Quran. [379] Gandhi's economic thinking disagreed with Marx, according to the political theory scholar and economist Bhikhu Parekh. He helped found the Natal Indian Congress in 1894,[26][66] and through this organisation, he moulded the Indian community of South Africa into a unified political force. The book was translated into English the next year, with a copyright legend that read "No Rights Reserved". Gandhi and Jinnah had extensive correspondence and the two men met several times over a period of two weeks in September 1944, where Gandhi insisted on a united religiously plural and independent India which included Muslims and non-Muslims of the Indian subcontinent coexisting. There he studied the rudiments of arithmetic, history, the Gujarati language and geography. [204] A black marble platform, it bears the epigraph "Hē Rāma" (Devanagari: हे ! [388] The Indian government later withdrew the revised edition. He set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. [428], A five-hour nine-minute long biographical documentary film,[429] Mahatma: Life of Gandhi, 1869–1948, made by Vithalbhai Jhaveri[430] in 1968, quoting Gandhi's words and using black and white archival footage and photographs, captures the history of those times. Gandhi's image also appears on paper currency of all denominations issued by Reserve Bank of India, except for the one rupee note. '[229], Gandhi, in his autobiography, called Rajchandra his "guide and helper" and his "refuge [...] in moments of spiritual crisis". [159] He also condemned Nazism and Fascism, a view which won endorsement of other Indian leaders. [414], In 2007, the United Nations General Assembly declared Gandhi's birthday 2 October as "the International Day of Nonviolence. Gandhi wrote the book The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism and wrote for the London Vegetarian Society's publication. The ‘forgotten’ Mahatma called Bapu. The 2007 film, Gandhi, My Father was inspired on the same theme. [422] Geir Lundestad, Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2006 said, "The greatest omission in our 106-year history is undoubtedly that Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace prize. [322][323], Gandhi championed animal rights in general. In the post-Khilafat period, Gandhi neither negated Jewish demands nor did he use Islamic texts or history to support Muslim claims against Israel. There’s a song in this movie called “Hanikarak Bapu” which conveys the problems of the daughters named Geeta and Babita referring to their father Mahavir Singh Phogat, who trains them to be the great wrestlers. The Government of India awarded the annual Gandhi Peace Prize to distinguished social workers, world leaders and citizens. ", Murthy, C. S. H. N., Oinam Bedajit Meitei, and Dapkupar Tariang. [120], People rioted in retaliation. [157], Gandhi opposed providing any help to the British war effort and he campaigned against any Indian participation in the World War II. 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