Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. His satyagraha deeply influenced personalities from other parts of the world like Martin Luther King Jr. He wanted India to be a secular country and believed in religious pluralism. This movement played a crucial role in uniting the Indians against the British.Īs a social reformer, Gandhi was instrumental in abolishing the age-old practice of untouchability and racial discrimination. What followed were widespread movements directed at railway stations, government buildings, telegraph offices, and other bodies of British rule. Gandhi’s attitude towards sex changed in his late 30s, when he was in South Africa. It was a ‘do or die’ call for the British to leave. On August 9, 1942, during WWII, Mahatma Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement, which demanded the end of British rule in India. This was the beginning of a chain of civil disobedience movements across India, which included boycotts of foreign goods, refusal to pay taxes, and more. As an act of defiance towards the government, Gandhi picked up a handful of salt that had formed at Dandi by the evaporation of the sea.

Gandhi left his Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad for Dandi, a village situated on the western coast, with 78 other Ashram members. The march lasted from March 12 to April 6 as a campaign against the British salt monopoly. Indians were almost as civilized, and Africans were. He thought in his 20s that Europeans are the most civilized. Also known as the Salt Satyagraha, the Dandi March was a nonviolent civil disobedience movement. 'Gandhi as a young man went with the ideas of his culture and his time. (Image: Getty Images) 40 / 100 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Gujarat. (Image: Getty Images) 39 / 100 Mahatma Gandhi walking with Indira Nehru (Indira Gandhi), daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru.

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