Knowing Gandhi's deep anguish regarding proposals of partition, Patel engaged him in frank discussion in private meetings over the perceived practical unworkability of any Congress-League coalition, the rising violence and the threat of civil war.

Meeting Gandhi a month later at the Gujarat Political Conference in Godhra, Patel became the secretary of the Gujarat Sabha — a public body which would become the Gujarati arm of the Indian National Congress — at Gandhi's encouragement.

Gandhi's secretary Mahadev Desai kept detailed records of conversations between Gandhi and Patel.

Gandhi's wife Kasturbai Gandhi and his personal secretary Mahadev Desai died in months and Gandhi's health was failing, despite this Gandhi went on a 21-day fast and maintained his resolve to continuous resistance.

Following that he played the role of Mahatma Gandhi's second secretary, Pyarelal, in the Richard Attenbrough film Gandhi in 1982.

Nagarwala was arrested, however, after Malhotra went in person to collect a receipt from P. N. Haksar, Indira Gandhi's personal secretary, informing him that the requested payment was done.

Gandhi's yoga guru, Dhirendra Brahmachari, helped her in making certain decisions and also executed certain top level political tasks on her behalf, especially from 1975 to 1977 when Gandhi " dissolved Parliament, declared a state of emergency and suspended civil liberties.

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 >

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

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

Gandhi's father, Karamchand Gandhi, had also died earlier that year.

Patel also supported Gandhi's controversial suspension of resistance in wake of the Chauri Chaura incident.

When the struggle of resistance matured in November 1971, India also intervened militarily and may have helped bring international attention to the issue through Indira Gandhi's visit to Washington, D. C.

Shastri also enrolled himself as a life member of the Servants of the People Society and began to work for the upliftment of the Harijans under Gandhi's direction at Muzaffarpur.

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

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

The Filhos de Gandhi's 1949 appearance was also revolutionary because, until then, the Carnaval parades in Salvador were meant only for light-skinned people.

His opponents also attributed casteist motives to his government's implementation of Gandhi's Nai Talim scheme into the education system.

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

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

Davies has finished in last place 63 times and also holds the record for the lowest score on the show: − 144, gained after losing 150 points for guessing that Gandhi's first name was Randy in the " Differences " episode.

He is also a well-known political columnist and has written several books, including Pakistan Papers and Remembering Rajiv, and has edited a four-volume publication, Rajiv Gandhi's India.

Indira Gandhi's death in 1984 also brought Ganesan's political career to an end.

Singh also advised the Sikh leaders that in Indira Gandhi's gambit to win popular support she could either send the Indian army into Sri Lanka to protect the Tamil minority there or she could target the Sikhs.

He also accused the KGB of involvement in Mrs. Gandhi's assassination, saying the Soviet Union preferred a weaker Rajiv as Prime Minister over his powerful, independently-minded mother.

He also became involved in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Salt Satygraha movement which hampered his formal education.

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!

It goes to his credit that this Play revived interest in the life and ideals of Dara Shukoh and later Gopal Gandhi's Dara Shikoh and Pakistan's Ajoka Group also brought Dara Shukoh to the stage.

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 ".

The commercial Indian beedi industry saw rapid growth during the 1930s probably driven by an expansion of tobacco cultivation at the time but also helped by Gandhi's support of Indian industry and Indian products.

But the real importance, to my mind, lay in the effect they had on our own people, and especially the village masses .... Non-cooperation dragged them out of the mire and gave them self-respect and self-reliance .... They acted courageously and did not submit so easily to unjust oppression ; their outlook widened and they began to think a little in terms of India as a whole .... It was a remarkable transformation and the Congress, under Gandhi's leadership, must have the credit for it.

The Hindu Mahasabha had initially backed Gandhi's campaigns of civil disobedience against the British government.

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.

Gandhi's fasts had a significant impact on the British Raj and the Indian population generally.

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

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.

The scale of the corruption was far worse than any that India had seen before and directly led to the defeat of Gandhi's ruling Indian National Congress party in the November 1989 general elections.

Called to the Centre following Rajiv Gandhi's massive mandate in the 1984 General elections, he was appointed to the pivotal post of Finance Minister, where he oversaw the gradual relaxation of the license Raj as Rajiv had in mind.

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.

In Kheda, the entire revolt had been led by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who was to become Gandhi's right hand man.

But the real importance, to my mind, lay in the effect they had on our own people, and especially the village masses .... Non-cooperation dragged them out of the mire and gave them self-respect and self-reliance .... They acted courageously and did not submit so easily to unjust oppression ; their outlook widened and they began to think a little in terms of India as a whole .... It was a remarkable transformation and the Congress, under Gandhi's leadership, must have the credit for it.

Unto This Last had a very important impact on Gandhi's philosophy.

Charleson had a similar high-profile success the following year, in a luminous performance playing Mahatma Gandhi's closest friend and collaborator, the Anglican priest Charlie Andrews, in Gandhi ( 1982 ), opposite Ben Kingsley.

Dr. Jones had become close friends with Mahatma Gandhi, and after Gandhi's assassination wrote a biography on his life.

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

Though the majority of Indians supported the non-cooperation movement, some supporters did not share Gandhi's firm conviction that violence had no place in the struggle.

The Swaraj Party was formed on 1 January, 1923 by Indian politicians and members of the Indian National Congress who had opposed Mahatma Gandhi's suspension of all civil resistance on 5 February 1922 in response to the Chauri Chaura tragedy, where policemen were killed by a mob of protestors.

The other group was the ' No-Changers ', who had accepted Gandhi's decision to withdraw the movement.

Rahul Gandhi's comparison of Purulia with Kalahandi had brought political controversy in West Bengal.

However, Abhyankar and his fellow extremists had lost patience at what they deemed Mahatma Gandhi's unreasonable stand to appease Pakistan, who had already invaded Kashmir by that time.

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.