Gandhi An Indian Politician - 1164 Words

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born in 2 October 1869 in Porbandar and died in Delhi on January 30 1948, at the age of 78 years old. He is from a rich Hindouiste family of the caste of Vaishyas (caste of the traders), just below the caste of the members of a religious order of the warriors. He is the youngest of his 3 other brothers. He was a spiritual guide and an Indian politician. His father, Karamchand Gandhi, is Prime Minister of a small principality by inheritance of the privileges of his family. His mother, Poutlibai, fourth woman of Karamchand Gandhi, lives scrupulously and with worship her religion.Gandhi carries a great deal of respect for his two parents. During his schooling, Gandhi was a mediocre student in primary school. Then†¦show more content†¦Apostle of the civil disobedience and the religious tolerance, diligent follower of the fast and the meditation. The political nonviolence groups is an individual strategies or mass strategy which, without using the violence try to make the opponent bend.Considering that, to obtain their citizenship, Indians have to participate in the defense of this one, he asks them to enlist to support the British in the World War I. After the World War I, Gandhi, fast joined by millions of Indians, opposed the British by organizing the civic resistance and campaigns of non-cooperation (boycott of the authorities, the courts and the schools). Became famous in all India. He also launched a campaign to obtain the economic independence in front of the impoverishment of the population and the destruction of the local industry, the consequence of the British colonial politics. But his campaign of civil disobedience was a failure. He was arrested for subversion in 1922 by the British government and released in 1924. In 1930, benefiting from a considerable influence, Gandhi began a new campaign of civil disobedience, aiming at the deletion of the taxes, in particular on the salt. He was again imprisoned, then released in 1931. Always by nonviolent but active means (boycott, silent demonstrations, hunger strikes), he began a fight for the abolition of the system of castes and the equality of the rights for the untouchable. After the