JANUARY 30th‚ 1949 - The Mahatma was assassinated by a man called Naturam Godse. After he shot him‚ instead of running away‚ he stood his ground and surrounded. He said‚ "No one should think that Gandhi was killed by a madman" One of the best speeches of All time‚ which is compared to Socrates’s speech in his trial. The Judge was astonished by his speech and commented that if India had followed the Jury system of giving judgments‚ Godse would have been adjudicated as "Not Guilty" by the Jury‚ cause
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In 1913 the Quaid-i-Azam joined the All India Muslim League without abandoning the membership of the Congress of which he had been an active member for some years. But this membership of the two organizations ended in December 1920. On the occasion of the special session at Nagpur the Congress adopted a new creed which permitted the use of unconstitutional means and decided to resort to non-violent non-co-operation for the attainment of self-government. The new policy and programme in essence envisaged
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and later at Girton College‚ Cambridge. Sarojini Naidu joined the Indian national movement in the wake of partition of Bengal in 1905. She came into contact with Gopal Krishna Gokhale‚Rabindranath Tagore‚ Muhammad Ali Jinnah‚ Annie Besant‚ C. P. Ramaswami Iyer‚ Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.[4] In 1925‚ Naidu presided over the annual session of Indian National Congress at Cawnpore. In 1929‚ she presided over East African Indian Congress inSouth Africa. She was awarded the hind a kesari medal
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Karamchand Gandhi. Not just because he is the Father of the Nation but his immense contribution to the country not just in terms of struggle for freedom but his ideologies and thoughts which changed the map of our country. When he took the charge of Indian National Congress it was a turning point in its history due to his enormous following‚ his spiritual powers and his non-violent means of fighting. Gandhi introduced the concept of Satyagraha. Which appealed to the common masses who were largely pious
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through his discovery of his self-realization through faith that he was able to conceptualize these aspects which later helped Gandhi fight for the independence of India in 1922 (Gandhi
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IS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE JUSTIFIED? “The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy‚ indifference‚ and undernourishment". 1 “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful‚ committed individuals can change the world. Indeed‚ it ’s the only thing that ever has."2 History has shown us through the likes of Mahatma Gandhi‚ Martin Luther King Jr. who went against the greater power of their time to fight for injustice. These few respectable
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Gandhi Mahatma What I find most interesting about Mahatma Gandhi and his life and work is how he was a very spiritual leader to many people and people looked up to him as one of their hero’s. Mahatma Gandhi was considered a father of the Indian Independence Movement and believed in non-violence. I find it very interesting how Mahatma Gandhi went on a Salt March for 24 days and walked 241 miles with his satyagrahis to the coast where they had picked up salt. This Salt March happened in 1930 and
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indeed‚ are available for handling various tasks of national reconstruction. History bears out the undesirable fact that all great movements of nationwide importance have succeeded on the strength of massive youth power. In India‚ the epoch-making Indian National Movement could gain momentum and shake the very roots of the British Raj only when the youth were harnessed in it. Over a decade ago‚ Mao Tse Tung‚ the famous Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party‚ relied upon youth power to usher in a
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Shubash Chandra Bose Netaji as he was called was a very prominent figure in the Indian freedom struggle. His sole aim was the freedom of his country and he termed it as a necessity and didn’t agree with Gandhiji on the terms that it can be negotiated. He was well educated and believed that there should be complete intolerance for caste-differentiation‚ racism or religious separation. His was so active in the Indian National Congress that he was arrested several times by the British Government. Soon
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part of an inferior race‚ The widespread denial of civil liberties and political rights to Indian immigrants arriving in South Africa appalled him. After struggling for fundamental rights for Indians and being imprisoned multiple times for his efforts‚ he started teaching a policy of passive resistance‚ especially during protests such as the burning of the Alien travel passes which had been enforced on Indians by British rule. His teachings had a monumental effect. In 1914‚ the government of the Union
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