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Gandhi and the Journey of Independence

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In History, we have always learned about heroes, leaders, and people who made accomplishments that in a way have changed the world. We live for what others have done. Any courageous step taken by an individual in order to achieve a goal, a belief, and seek for a right, comes only from a person with leadership, huge spirit, and greatness. We have always looked back at leaders in our history that have made life easier for us. For that, I would like to write about an extraordinary personality that has achieved a big, difficult step for the good of Indians. Mohandas Gandhi is considered for many people the man of the century. This poor man has done what powerful political rulers couldn’t do. The Mahatma had fought and joined many …show more content…

He started thinking and planning based on his thoughts and ideas that he mostly had learned from several thinkers, and this is where he planned his first Satyagraha. “Influenced by a variety of writers and thinkers, including Tolstoy, Thoreau and Jesus Christ, Gandhi developed the Satyagraha ('devotion to truth'), a new non-violent way to redress wrongs.” (BBC.co, 2006)
Success of Satyagraha
He was interested in religions and ethics early in his childhood, but he started studying them later in life. “In his first year in South Africa he read ‘quite eighty books’, most of them on religion.” (BBC.com, 2006) Thoreau was among his favorite writers, as he remarked the idea of civil disobedience into Gandhi’s thoughts. Tolstoy as well had a big influence on Gandhi. “Tolstoy’s bold idealism and fearless candour gripped him, his Christian anarchism dissipated the spell of institutional religion. Tolstoy’s emphasis on the necessity of an accord between moral principles and daily life confirmed his own strivings for self-improvement.” (BBC.com, 2006) Gandhi started teaching Indians about the civil disobedience, as they started to disobey and challenge the humiliating laws in a meant that the Indians would disobey the fair laws in a peacefully, quite, and nonviolence way. If they were attacked, punished or imprisoned, they would allow it

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