Kaba Gandhi No Delo ( literally " Kaba Gandhi's house "), Rajkot is the place where the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi stayed during his stay in Rajkot in the early years of his life.

Gandhi's early life work in South Africa between the years 1910 and 1915, for the rights of Indian residents oppressed by the racist, white minority South African regime inspired the later work of the African National Congress ( ANC ).

Mohandas Gandhi's early life was a series of personal struggles to decipher the truth about life's important issues and discover the true way of living.

Nehru and most of the Congress leaders were initially ambivalent about Gandhi's plan to begin civil disobedience with a satyagraha aimed at the British salt tax.

Gandhi's death and funeral linked the distant state with the Indian people and made more understand the need to suppress religious parties during the transition to independence for the Indian people.

Gandhi's economic ideas also aim to promote spiritual development and harmony with a rejection of materialism.

Meanwhile the Muslim League did cooperate with Britain and moved, against Gandhi's strong opposition, to demands for a totally separate Muslim state of Pakistan.

Gandhi's war recruitment campaign brought into question his consistency on nonviolence as his friend Charlie Andrews confirms, " Personally I have never been able to reconcile this with his own conduct in other respects, and it is one of the points where I have found myself in painful disagreement.

Gandhi's first major achievements came in 1918 with the Champaran and Kheda agitations of Bihar and Gujarat.

It has been used in many nonviolent resistance movements in India ( Gandhi's campaigns for independence from the British Empire ), in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution and in East Germany to oust their communist governments, in South Africa in the fight against apartheid, in the American Civil Rights Movement, in the Singing Revolution to bring independence to the Baltic countries from the Soviet Union, recently with the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia and the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, among other various movements worldwide.

Following Gandhi's and Congress ' approval of the plan, Patel represented India on the Partition Council, where he oversaw the division of public assets, and selected the Indian council of ministers with Nehru.

Godse, a Hindu nationalist activist from Pune, Maharashtra who resented what he considered was Gandhi's partiality to India's Muslims, plotted the assassination with Narayan Apte and six others.

Narayanan's tenures as Indian ambassador to China, the first such high level Indian diplomatic posting in that country after the 1962 Sino-Indian War, and to the USA where he helped arrange Ms. Gandhi's landmark 1982 visit to Washington during the Reagan presidency helped mend India's strained relations with both these countries.

Gandhi's combination of renunciation of violence with active acceptance of suffering also received support from Jewish thinkers.

Gandhi's approach has been compared with Frankl's.

* GandhiPoetics. com A site that analyzes and previews the poetry associated with Gandhi's Satyagraha movement.

In 1949, a group called Filhos de Gandhi began playing afoxé during carnaval parades in Salvador ; their name translates as Sons of Gandhi, associating black Brazilian activism with Mahatma Gandhi's Indian independence movement.

Parallels are drawn with Gandhi's personification of the Indian woman as a goddess, acquiring certain masculine traits as they gain power as the goddesses did in Hindu mythology, but it is a power which is made more subtle by their virtue and acquiescence.

He also translated Gandhi's autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, into English.

That meeting is credited with resulting in Ms. Gandhi's subsequent 15-year ban on felling of green trees in 1980.

The film opens with a statement from the filmmakers explaining their approach to the problem of filming Gandhi's complex life story:

The film begins with Gandhi's assassination on 30 January 1948, and his funeral.

He also opened high level diplomatic relations with Israel, which Indira Gandhi's government which took office following the 1980 elections curtailed.

During his union ministership, he clashed with American multinationals like IBM and Coca Cola insisting them to implement FERA, the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, which had been passed under Indira Gandhi's government.

Gandhi's parents are a stereotypical Jewish-American couple, while JFK is raised by a homosexual, interracial couple ; Joan's " foster grandpa " is an elderly blind musician similar to Ray Charles named Toots, a parody of the stereotypical wise old man role ( and the magical negro role ) found in many teen shows, and who begins many of his declarative sentences with the words, " Now, I may be blind, but I can see ..." followed by a wise-sounding observation that has little or nothing to do with anything.

The satyagraha against the salt tax continued for almost a year, ending with Gandhi's release from jail and negotiations with Viceroy Lord Irwin at the Second Round Table Conference.

Mohandas Gandhi's teachings of Satyagraha ( or truth force ) have inspired many practitioners of nonviolent direct action, although the use of nonviolence does not always imply an ideological commitment to pacifism.

Satya ( truth ) in Gandhi's philosophy is God.

Lelyveld quotes correspondence between Gandhi and Kallenbach, including excerpts from the latter's diary, with language that seems suggestive of a homosexual relationship, with Gandhi speaking of his disciple Kallenbach as " Lower House ," and of himself as " Upper House ," and saying that cotton-wool and Vaseline were a constant reminder of their " mutual love ," Lelyveld says this relates to the cotton wool and Vaseline that Gandhi and Kallenbach used in giving themselves enemas, one of Gandhi's fads.

* 1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.

For instance, Mahatma Gandhi's satyagraha struggle for Indian independence is called a " jihad " in Modern Standard Arabic ( as well as many other dialects of Arabic ); the terminology is also applied to the fight for women's liberation .< ref >

Indian newspapers repeated Nehru's own words of the time of Gandhi's assassination: " The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere.

Gandhi's philosophy was not theoretical but one of pragmatism, that is, practicing his principles in real time.

For a time Saleem is held as a political prisoner ; these passages contain scathing criticisms of Indira Gandhi's overreach during the Emergency as well as a personal lust for power bordering on godhood.

In 1984 Indira Gandhi brought an action against the book in the British courts, claiming to have been defamed by a single sentence in chapter 28, penultimate paragraph, in which her son Sanjay Gandhi is said to have had a hold over his mother by him accusing her of contributing to his father's Feroze Gandhi's death through her neglect.

Assessing the extent to which Gandhi's ideas of satyagraha were or were not successful in the Indian independence struggle is a complex task.

She addressed the United Nations on 2 October 2007, Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary which is observed as the international day of non-violence after a UN resolution passed on 15 July 2007.

Gandhi's term " swaraj " ( see also " satygraha ") is a branch of this self-rule ideology.

It is worth noting though that the word Kaffir had a different connotation in Gandhi's time than its current day meaning.

Sunderlal Bahuguna ( born 9 January 1927 ) is a noted Garhwali environmentalist, Chipko movement leader and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of Non-violence and Satyagraha. His actual family name is Bandyopadhyay a common family name for Bengali Brahmin.

" Kroll stated that the screenplay's " least persuasive characters are Gandhi's Western allies and acolytes " such as an English cleric and an American journalist, but that " Attenborough's ' old-fashioned ' style is exactly right for the no-tricks, no-phony-psychologizing quality he wants.

It is still in wide use especially in Gandhi's home state of Gujarat.

This is very much similar to Mahatma Gandhi's Talisman which he gave in 1948.

It is Indira Gandhi's business and not mine, nor Longowal's, nor of any other of our leaders.

Explaining his choice, Gandhi said, “ Next to air and water, salt is perhaps the greatest necessity of life .” In contrast to the other leaders, the prominent Congress statesman and future Governor-General of India, C. Rajagopalachari, understood Gandhi's viewpoint.