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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi "Familjen gandhi" : Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī ; [ c ] 2 October — 30 January was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalistand political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal GujaratGandhi trained in the law at the Inner Temple in London and was called to the bar in Juneat the familjen gandhi of After two uncertain years in India, where he was unable to start a successful law practice, Gandhi moved to South Africa in to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit.
He went on to live in South Africa for 21 years. There, Gandhi raised a family and first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights. Inaged 45, he returned to India and soon set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against discrimination and excessive land-tax. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress inGandhi familjen gandhi nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchabilityand, above all, achieving swaraj or self-rule.
Gandhi adopted the short dhoti woven with hand-spun yarn as a mark of identification with India's rural poor. He began to live in a self-sufficient residential communityto eat simple food, and undertake long fasts as a means of both introspection and political protest. Bringing anti-colonial nationalism to the common Indians, Gandhi led them in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the km mi Dandi Salt March in and in calling for the British to quit India in He was imprisoned many times and for many years in both South Africa and India.
Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged in the early s by a Muslim nationalism which demanded a separate homeland for Muslims within British India. As many displaced Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs made their way to their new lands, religious violence broke out, especially in the Punjab and Bengal.
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Abstaining from the official celebration of independenceGandhi visited the affected areas, attempting to alleviate distress. In the months following, he undertook several hunger strikes to stop the religious violence. The last of these was begun in Delhi on 12 Januarywhen Gandhi was The belief that Gandhi had been too resolute in his defence of both Pakistan and Familjen gandhi Muslims spread among some Hindus in India.
Among these was Nathuram Godsea militant Hindu nationalist from Punewestern India, who assassinated Gandhi by firing three bullets into his chest at an interfaith prayer meeting in Delhi on 30 January Gandhi's birthday, 2 October, is commemorated in India as Gandhi Jayantia national holidayand worldwide as the International Day of Nonviolence. Gandhi is considered to be the Father of the Nation in post-colonial India.
During India's nationalist movement and in several decades immediately after, he was also commonly called Bapuan endearment familjen gandhi meaning "father". Gandhi's father, Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi —served as the dewan chief minister of Porbandar state. During his tenure, Karamchand married four times. His first two wives died young, after each had given birth to a daughter, and his third marriage was childless.
InKaramchand sought his third wife's permission to remarry; that year, he married Putlibai —who also came from Junagadh, [ 5 ] and was familjen gandhi a Pranami Vaishnava family. InGandhi's father, Karamchand, left Porbandar for the smaller state of Rajkotwhere he became a counsellor to its ruler, the Thakur Sahib; though Rajkot was a less prestigious state than Porbandar, the British regional political agency was located there, which gave the state's diwan a measure of security.
Karamchand's family then rejoined him in Rajkot.
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As a child, Gandhi was described by his sister Raliat as "restless as mercury, either playing or roaming about. One of his favourite pastimes was twisting dogs' ears. In his autobiography, Gandhi states that they left an indelible impression on his mind. Gandhi writes: "It haunted me and I must have acted Harishchandra to myself times without number.
The family's religious background was eclectic. Mohandas was born into a Gujarati Hindu Modh Bania family. To keep two or three consecutive fasts was nothing to her. At the age of nine, Gandhi entered the local school in Rajkotnear his home.
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There, he studied the rudiments of arithmetic, history, the Gujarati language and geography. In Maythe year-old Mohandas Gandhi was married to year-old Kasturbai Gokuldas Kapadia her first name was usually shortened familjen gandhi "Kasturba", and affectionately to "Ba" in an arranged marriageaccording to the custom of the region at that time.
Recalling the day of their marriage, Gandhi once said, "As we didn't know much about marriage, for us it meant only wearing new clothes, eating sweets and playing with relatives. Writing many years later, Mohandas described with regret the lustful feelings he felt for his young bride by saying, "Even at school I used to think of her, and the thought of nightfall and our subsequent meeting was ever haunting me.
In lateGandhi's father, Karamchand, died.
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Many decades later Gandhi wrote "if animal passion had not blinded me. I should have been spared the torture of separation from my father during his last moments. The two deaths anguished Gandhi. In Novemberthe year-old Gandhi graduated from high school in Ahmedabad.