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Hace 1 día · Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
Hace 4 días · Mahatma Gandhi (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi) was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. As such, he came to be considered the father of his country.
Hace 4 días · Gandhi had been a leader of the Indian nationalist movement in South Africa. He had also been a vocal opponent of basic discrimination and abusive labour treatment as well as suppressive police control such as the Rowlatt Acts. During these protests, Gandhi had perfected the concept of satyagraha.
Hace 4 días · Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of independent India (1947–64), who established parliamentary government and became noted for his neutralist (nonaligned) policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement of the 1930s and ’40s.
Hace 4 días · Mahatma Gandhi - Nonviolence, Indian Independence, Satyagraha: For the next three years, Gandhi seemed to hover uncertainly on the periphery of Indian politics, declining to join any political agitation, supporting the British war effort, and even recruiting soldiers for the British Indian Army.
Hace 3 días · Discover how a vision in the kitchen changed Gavaskar's cricketing fortunes, how a mysterious yogi influenced Indira Gandhi's political decisions, how Sachin Tendulkar's encounter with Sai Baba boosted his career, and how an Indian spiritual journey shaped Steve Jobs' life and legacy.
Hace 5 días · Mahatma Gandhi and his companions took 24 days to complete the Dandi March, also known as the Salt March or the Salt Satyagraha. They trekked 395 kilometres to get to Dandi. Bapu's choice of salt as the protest's focal point was dismissed by his own Congress advisers, notably Pandit Nehru and Sardar Patel.
