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    Gandhi once said, “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” During the 1930’s and 40’s there were many people who fought for India’s independence, Gandhi being one of them, otherwise known as Mahatma Gandhi. He worked very hard towards gaining India’s independence quietly and peacefully. His efforts have influenced many good things all across the world. His way of fighting for India’s independence was under a term called

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    ESSAY ON MAHATMA GANDHI Mahatma Gandhi was born in the Porbandar city of Gujarat in october 2nd, 1869. His father name is Karamchand Gandhi, the diwan of Porbandar, and his wife, Putlibai. Since his mother was a Hindu of the Pranami Vaishnava order, Gandhi learned the tenets of non-injury to living beings, vegetarianism, fasting, mutual tolerance, etc, at a very tender age. Mohandas was married at the age of 13 to Kasturba Makhanji and had four sons. He passed the matriculation exam at Samaldas

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    Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World (1954) A private citizen without health died on January 30, 1948. Mohandas K. Gandhi fell after being shot three times at the age of seventy-eight. Many people looked up to Gandhi. To pay respect, humanity followed by the UN lowered their flags to half-mast. Almost a million people waited near Jumna, not far from New Delhi, for the funeral to proceed. Not far from the river was a pyre built of stone, brick, and earth. Gandhi’s body will lie upon this pyre;

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    Independence movements in the countries of: India, Us, and Latin America have been different and some ways has also been similar. There were many similarities between the causes of the American Revolution in 1776 and the Latin American Wars of Independence beginning in 1810. From the time of Columbus and the late 15th century forward, the Spaniards and Portuguese called the peoples of theAmericas Indians. The causes for the independence movements throughout Latin America during the colonial period

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    On March 12, 1930 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more widely known as Mahatma Gandhi, began his famous salt march to the sea. Gandhi’s salt march was an act of civil disobedience, or satyagraha, which loosely means “truth-force”, against the rule of the British government over India at the time. This march was Gandhi’s way of fighting rejecting the tax that the British government had put on salt for the Indian people. Gandhi’s act of marching to the sea to produce salt sparked motions and revolutions

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    Krupnik Comparative World Religions May 6, 2016 Research Paper: Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi, better known to the world as Mahatma Gandhi is one of the world’s main faces when we think or talk of the Indian independence movements, women’s rights and all around freedom for humanity. This individual used strategies and tactics of his own to achieve justice for the Indian culture while he was alive. Gandhi also worked to reform traditional Indian society in India as he was a mahatma

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    Gandhi Imperialism

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    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948), a past lawyer now world-renowned activist, led India’s independence movement from Great Britain through his praxis of Satyagraha to take it back from Colonial rule. To him “the greatest menace to the world today is growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.” Mahatma— meaning supreme soul— Gandhi showed his distaste towards British imperialism through non-cooperative and non-violent movements when he saw what had become on India on his return: use of culturally

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    “The future generations will scarcely believe that such a man in flesh and blood, had tread this earth.” Albert Einstein Mahatma Gandhi’s real name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was born in 1869 at Porbandar in the state of Gujarat in INDIA. His father’s name was Karamchand Gandhi and his mother’s name was Putlibai. He was the youngest in the family of one sister and three brothers. His father belonged to the family of grocers but himself was a minister in the court of a local

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    Mahatma Gandhi Essay

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    Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi. Also known as Mahatma the great soul, was the "father of modern India". He originally came from Western India, a city called Porbandar. He was born on 2nd October 1869. Gandhi was on of the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand Gandhi, who was a Prime Minister successively in Porbandar, Rajkot and Vankaner States. Gandhi's mother was Putlibai, Karamchand Gandhi's fourth wife. In 1876 he attended a primary

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    Who is Gandhi? And what makes him such an influential piece of history? Mohandas Gandhi was born on the 2nd of October 1869. Having both an extremely religious mother and father, Gandhi was brought up worshiping the Hindu god and abiding by the religions traditions. Growing up he was an ordinary kid who received no special treatment or privileges over any other child in his home town. At the age of thirteen, he married the women he would spend the rest of his life with, Kasturba Makanji. In the years

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