This primary source document was taken from the book “The Essential Gandhi.” It was written by Mahatma Gandhi himself‚ an Indian immigrant and activist who led the Indian movement to free India from British rule. He was able to accomplish this through nonviolent civil disobedience acts by himself and by others who followed him. These are excerpts from Gandhi’s writings conveying how he was able to win over the British government as a spiritual leader through nontraditional means. These excerpts are
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has got a secondary or under the surface meaning. One of the best known allegory in English language‚ is John Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress”. The Pilgrim’s Progress is an allegory of a Christian’s salvation. The most succinct summary of the action in The Pilgrim’s Progress is probably the extended title of the work: “The Pilgrim’s Progress from this World to that which is to Come: Delivered under a Similitude of a Dream”. The novel contains life of Christian written in the
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Mahatma Gandhi is considered to be the leading theorist in the history of civil disobediencmovement. The Gandhian concept of civil disobedience and satyagraha is the greatest contributionto mankind in our times. Albert Einstein said‚ “It is my belief that the problem of bringing peaceto the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi’s method on alarge scale.” Martin Luther King Jr. said‚ “From my background I gained my regulating Christianideals‚ from Gandhi‚ I learned
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Analyse the role of Mahatma Gandhi in the freedom movement of India Jyoti The father of the Nation. Mahatma Gandhi was one of these great men who dedicated their whole life to theservice of the mankind. Like Buddha and Christ before him hetoo was born to carry the message of peace‚ truth and Non-violence to the strife turn world. He was born on October 2.1869 A.D. in a trading family of porbander‚ a small town in Kathiawara. His full name was Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi and his father was the Diwan
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Notes for the Teachers One Language – Many Voices Joseph Conrad: An Outpost of Progress INfO-BOx Cultural and historical background The colonization of Central Africa did not set in until the very end of the 19th century‚ when ‘the scramble for Africa’ – the race of European powers to divide the continent among themselves – got under way: In 1870 European countries owned only 10% of Africa‚ by 1900 it was 90%. For a long time access to the huge territories in the Congo River basin was
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is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty‚ the ocean does not become dirty.” This quote was divulged from Mahatma Gandhi‚ perhaps one of the greatest and most infamous humanitarians the earth fostered. He believed in the independence and beauty of individualism; only protesting in the tell-tale‚ nonviolent manner Martin Luther King Jr. would later culture. Gandhi was one of the first anti-war activists publicized worldwide. His works heartened other civil rights leaders such as Nelson
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Achieving Social Progress: Race‚ Racial Solidarity‚ and Racial Integration Since the days of reconstruction‚ the debate over how African-Americans could best obtain equality in the United States has raged on from generation to generation. Blacks have been subjected to racial inequalities in America before America even really existed. And even when blacks were finally "free" after the Civil War‚ social injustices continued throughout American history‚ and still exist today. There have been
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CHANGE‚ DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS Change is the essence of life. Nothing in this universe is static. everything has to move on to sustain its existence. The same is true for a nation. A nation or a country is doomed unless there is a constant change taking place which moulds the lives of the countrymen and takes the country forward. This process of change has to be catalysed by the powers that govern the nation. In our country‚ successive democratically elected governments have put the country
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Muslim Women‚ Gandhi and Secularism Secularism is a difficult word to define. It is often used simply as the opposition of religion; it is a view of life‚ as the Webster’s New World Dictionary puts it‚ “based on the premise that religion and religious considerations‚ as of God and a future life‚ should be ignored or excluded” (Agnes 580). Harvey Cox a Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard uses the word: “Secularism…is the name for an ideology‚ a new closed world-view which functions very much
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Introduction Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has attained an iconic status in the world and in history is undisputable. About a hundred volumes of his collected works have been published by the Government of India‚ more than three thousand five hundred books have been written on Gandhi‚ and his symbols and words continue to inspire and encourage. As we celebrate a hundred years of his acknowledged magnum opus Hind Swaraj‚ it is time to reflect on the importance of both the text and the context
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