Mahatma Gandhi Biography: Father of the Nation

 

Mahatma Gandhi was also known as the father of the nation. Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar India by the name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was a lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer. He is also known for the doctrine of non-violent protest(satyagraha) to achieve independence. He studied in London.

He also organizes a civil disobedience movement in South Africa, after he came to India in 1915. he also tried to understand the problems of peasants, urban laborers, and farmers by traveling on trains to India’s different parts.

He also assumed the Indian National Congress in 1921 and successfully became the most prominent and iconic figure of Indian politics. He organizes the Dandy march in 1932 and the Quit India Movement in 1942. 

He worked a lot, Not only for peasants and farmers but also for untouchables. He gave him a new name called harridan which means the children of God. His symbol of the spinning wheel became a popular symbol for Indian independence because Gandhi wrote for many newspapers. By birth, he was a Vaishya, or trading caste.

Story of Mahatma Gandhi

His full name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. he was born in the small town of Porbandar Gujarat on 2 October 1969. He belonged to the Vaishya caste. His father died when he was 15 years old. After that, his mother became the greatest influence in his life. His mother's name was putlibai Gandhi. 

She follows a Jain devotee. As we all know, among the Jains in India the central doctrine is the “sanctity of all life”, or Ahimsa which is also known as non-violence. This teaching also remained with Gandhi.

Life-changing moment of Gandhi

In 1896, he went to Transvaal South Africa to help his client in a legal case. This is the visit that changed Gandhi’s life. After watching the conditions of his fellow countrymen he decided to stay there and help them. He became their political leader and adviser to help them and improve their conditions in South Africa. 

He read Tolstoy and corresponded with him and the result was an experiment in simple communal life conducted by a small band of enthusiasts whom he had gathered together. He achieves all this by fasting. at the end of his life, he says that he remained a devout Hindu but declared if ever “untouchability” were made part of Hinduism he would cease to be a Hindu. 

He did all the efforts to remove the untouchability. Slowly he gets able to gain followers. He went to jail three times and after this, slowly Indians started to gain the respect of the Europeans in South Africa through the faith of their leaders. in the summer of 1914, Gandhi got the victory, and in July Gandhi signed the Gandhi-smuts settlement.

Non-cooperation movement

At the end of the war, that thing brought him into leadership. He went three times to jail. First, when the passing of the Rowlett Act, the second time when the tragedy of Amritsar and Punjab took place and the last was when what was regarded in India as the betrayal of the Indian Moslems by the treaty of severs. 

 In September 1930, the non-cooperation movement took place, but it failed because the demand for nonviolence was broken by his followers.

Round table conference

Gandhi, on his return, demanded from the government more than lord Irwin’s promise of future dominion status or ram say MacDonald’s offer of a round table conference. He broke the salt law which takes him to the mat, in 1930. Britain knows that they could not afford to allow the Round table conference.

When the time of war came in 1939 he was still the most influential man in India. A mass of people looks for leadership. His attitude during the war years was difficult to define. He was shot dead by natural Binayak gods in Delhi. 

He was a member of Hindu Mahasabha at the age of 38-year-old. He blamed Gandhi for the partition between Pakistan and India. a trial court gave him the order of death. Firstly, he was a member of Rashia swayamsewak sangha Ross after that he joined the Hindu Mahasabha.

Prime Minister Narendra mode is also a long-time member of the 95-year-old mothership of Hindu nationalism.

Written By- Saurav Sharma