Tuesday, October 21, 2008

MAHATMA GANDHI

Mohandas Karamchant Gandhi well known as Mahatma Gandhi was the important person in the history of India. He is officially honoured in India as a Father of Nation. He was a major political and spiritual leader of India who fight for the India's independence .



At the age of 13, he married to Kasturba, who was also the same age. For a boy of that age marriage meant only a round of feasts, new clothes to wear and a strange and docile companion to play with. His children names are Harilal, Manilal, Ramdas, Devdas.


He fight for non-violent civil disobedience such as protesting excessive land-tax and discrimination on poor people, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity.
He became a leader of Indian Congress reject the proposals of British Cabinet Mission. He was the pioneer of "Satyagraha" concept was non violent resistance againts British. He had salt march around 400km against tax on salt and emphasize all Indians in public boycott courts law and withdraw their children from government school. After that, India quit from world war two and achieve independence on 1948. Finally, hard working of Gandhi and his followers India became a non-cooperation, non violence and peaceful country.

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