A e biography gandhi

Recounts the life and struggles of the Indian nationalist leader and discusses the origins of his philosophy of nonviolence, his campaigns for human rights.
Examine the life of one of the century's most influential leaders through rare footage and interviews with the Dalai Lama and Gandhi's grandson.
Mahatma Gandhi: Pilgrim of Peace; Colour and b/w, 1997.

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Mahatma Gandhi

(1869-1948)

Who Was Mahatma Gandhi?

Mahatma Gandhi was the leader of India’s non-violent independence movement against British rule and in South Africa who advocated for the civil rights of Indians. Born in Porbandar, India, Gandhi studied law and organized boycotts against British institutions in peaceful forms of civil disobedience. He was killed by a fanatic in 1948.

Gandhi leading the Salt March in protest against the government monopoly on salt production.

Early Life and Education

Indian nationalist leader Gandhi (born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Kathiawar, India, which was then part of the British Empire.

Gandhi’s father, Karamchand Gandhi, served as a chief minister in Porbandar and other states in western India. His mother, Putlibai, was a deeply religious woman who fasted regularly.

Young Gandhi was a shy, unremarkable student who was so timid that he slept with the lights on even as a teenager. In the ensuing years, the teenager rebelled by smoking, eating meat and stealing change from household se

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Mahatma Gandhi: Pilgrim of Peace (A&E Biography) [1994 TV episode]

by Noah Morowitz (Producer), A&E

A&E Biography (TV Show)

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The life story of Mahatma Gandhi, who, through his campaign of non-violent resistance, helped lead India to independence from Great Britain.

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DDC/MDS: 954.03 — History & geography History of Asia India and neighboring south Asian countries 1785–1947 British rule
LCC: DS481.G3 M34 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia India (Bharat) History

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Gr 6-10-This largely chronological overview provides some insight into the roots of Gandhi's beliefs in nonviolence and nonpossession, and his customary strategies such as fasting, civil disobedience, and turning the other cheek. Focusing on the subject's struggle for the rights of Indians in South Africa and for Indian independence from Great Britain, Martin gives less emphasis to opposition to the caste system and concern for the untouchables. In addition, he all but ignores Gandhi's antimodernism, interpreting his advocacy of the spinning wheel and homespun cloth simply as anti-British symbols. Occasional period black-and-white photographs and subheadings break up the text. Source notes attribute the direct quotations; no attribution is given for the things Gandhi is said to have thought or felt. A selected bibliography includes his writings as well as secondary sources. Most of the places named appear on the map of India in the late 1800s and the inset map showing India and Pakistan after 1947, but there is no map of South Africa where much of the action of this book takes pla