Gandhi's ideas are also influential in anarcho-pacifism.

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.

There are some setbacks, such as violence against the protesters and Gandhi's occasional imprisonment.

" 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.

The focal point of the memorial is a thousand-year-old stone sarcophagus from China, in which a portion of Gandhi's ashes are encased in a brass and silver coffer.

Singh's faith in the Indian political system has been shaken by events such as anti-Sikh riots that followed Indira Gandhi's assassination, in which major Congress politicians are alleged to be involved.

George Orwell began his Reflections on Gandhi: " Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent …" Orwell concluded his essay with an attack on the idea of sainthood but praise for Gandhi: " One may feel, as I do, a sort of aesthetic distaste for Gandhi, one may reject the claims of sainthood made on his behalf ( he never made any such claim himself, by the way ), one may also reject sainthood as an ideal and therefore feel that Gandhi's basic aims were anti-human and reactionary: but regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind!

After Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's suspension of civil liberties in 1975, Mother Teresa said: " People are happier.

There are also apocryphal claims of government suppression, e. g. " Allegedly, Indira Gandhi's government tried to ban book on Taj Mahal and some would say the Indian government has been politically motivated in suppressing this theory ".

Ottavio's financier son, Massimo Quattrocchi, grew up with Sonia Gandhi's children Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, who are currently rising through the political hierarchy in India.

The Nazis, however, led by Field Marshal Walther Model, are completely unmoved by Gandhi's strategy.

For instance, Gandhi draws a moral equivalence between the Nazis and British imperialists, something the other elements of the narrative are critical of, are Gandhi's real-world assertions.

Gandhi's religious views are reflected in the hymns his group often sang:

Prayer sessions are held at the Raj Ghat on Gandhi's birth and death anniversaries.

Others felt that Gandhi's refusal for India to participate in the war was insufficient and more direct opposition should be taken, while Britain fought against Nazism, it continued to refuse to grant India Independence.

She died in Gandhi's arms while both were still in prison, in Poona ( now Pune ).

Two Gandhian followers developed separate groups based on their interpretations of it: Vinoba Bhave established a Shanti Sena that prioritized Gandhi's spiritual approach towards the program, while JP established a program that focused more on the political motivations of the program.

James Lawson had studied Mahatma Gandhi's techniques of nonviolent direct action and passive resistance while studying in India.

The movie was not allowed a full release as the similarity to Mrs Gandhi's life held it up while she was in power.

Saket's grandson hands over Gandhi's footwear and spectacle which Saket had previously collected from the place of shootout and had treasured it all the while.

* 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.

" Gandhi's early self-identification with truth and love as supreme values is traceable to these epic characters.

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.

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.

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

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.

" Gandhi's private secretary also had acknowledged that " The question of the consistency between his creed of ' Ahimsa ' ( non-violence ) and his recruiting campaign was raised not only then but has been discussed ever since.

All these aims formed the core of the " Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy " resolution drafted by Nehru in 1929-31 and were ratified by the All India Congress Committee under Gandhi's leadership.

Without Gandhi's unifying personality, the Indian National Congress began to splinter during his years in prison, splitting into two factions, one led by Chitta Ranjan Das and Motilal Nehru favouring party participation in the legislatures, and the other led by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, opposing this move.

Despite Gandhi's opposition, Bose won a second term as Congress President, against Gandhi's nominee, Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya ; but left the Congress when the All-India leaders resigned en masse in protest of his abandonment of the principles introduced by Gandhi.

Gandhi's 1984 action to defeat Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale led to the attack of the Golden Temple in Operation Bluestar and ultimately led to Gandhi's assassination by her Sikh bodyguards.

Gandhi's Satyagraha was partially influenced and inspired by Shelley's nonviolence in protest and political action.

On the outbreak of World War II Patel supported Nehru's decision to withdraw the Congress from central and provincial legislatures, contrary to Gandhi's advice, as well as an initiative by senior leader Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari to offer Congress's full support to Britain if it promised Indian independence at the end of the war and install a democratic government right away.

Gandhi asked all 16 states representatives and Congress to elect the right person and Sardar Patel's name was proposed by 13 states representatives out of 16, but Patel respected Gandhi's request to not be the first prime minister.

Although pleas for commutation were made by India's prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and by Gandhi's two sons on the grounds that a death sentence would dishonour the legacy of a man opposed to all forms of violence, Godse was hanged a week later.

Godse later rejected Gandhi, after he saw Gandhi's repeated sabotage against the interests of Hindus by using the " fasting unto death " tactic on many issues.

Mahatma Gandhi's passive resistance was influenced and inspired by Shelley's verse, and would often quote the poem to vast audiences.

Here certain movements particularly influenced by a philosophy of nonviolence should be mentioned, including Mahatma Gandhi leading a decades-long nonviolent struggle against British rule in India, which eventually helped India win its independence in 1947, Martin Luther King's and James Bevel's adoption of Gandhi's nonviolent methods in the struggle to win civil rights for African Americans, and César Chávez's campaigns of nonviolence in the 1960s to protest the treatment of farm workers in California.

* 1970: Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson

On March 20, 1931, Lord Irwin paid tribute to Gandhi's honesty, sincerity and patriotism at a dinner given by ruling princes.

Both Gandhi and his wife Kasturba Gandhi had seen him as their son, and his death was mourned by Gandhi's supporters across the country.

Due to the security threats faced by Indira Gandhi's family from Sikh extremists, Rahul Gandhi and his sister, Priyanka were home-schooled thereafter.

The Desai government proceeded to establish inquiry commissions and tribunals to investigate allegations of corruption and human rights abuses by members of Indira Gandhi's government, political party and the police forces.

The Congress Party, led by Indira Gandhi, suffered a defeat at the hands of the Janata Party, a coalition created in 1977 out of several small parties that opposed Gandhi's Emergency era.