It highlighted the Mutiny of 1857 as a war of liberation, and Gandhi's ' Quit India ' begun in 1942, as defining historical events.

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.

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.

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.

Western diplomats predicted war and some of prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's advisers blamed Sundarji's recklessness.

During the Second World War, Pant acted as the tiebreaker between Gandhi's faction, which advocated supporting the British Crown in their war effort, and Subash Chandra Bose's faction, which advocated taking advantage of the situation to expel the British Raj by any means necessary.

" 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.

Sarma concludes that Gandhi's success in enlisting women in his campaigns, including the salt tax campaign, anti-untouchability campaign and the peasant movement, gave many women a new self-confidence and dignity in the mainstream of Indian public life.

This new campaign was not universally embraced within the Dalit community, as Ambedkar condemned Gandhi's use of the term Harijans as saying that Dalits were socially immature, and that privileged caste Indians played a paternalistic role.

While Nehru, Rajagopalachari and Maulana Azad initially criticised Gandhi's proposal for an all-out campaign of civil disobedience to force the British to Quit India, Patel was its most fervent supporter.

The group's inspiration was Krishnalal Jethalal Shridharani's book War Without Violence ( 1939, Harcourt Brace ), which outlined Gandhi's step-by-step procedures for organizing people and mounting a nonviolent campaign.

The Salt Satyagraha campaign was based upon Gandhi's principles of nonviolent protest called satyagraha, which he loosely translated as " truth-force.

He acted as Sonia Gandhi's campaign manager in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh in 1999.

In 1939, along with both younger members and veterans of Gandhi's campaigns, he founded a nationalist bloc within the TIC, with the goal of commencing a passive resistance campaign against the recently passed Asiatic Land Tenure Act.

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.

He believed in Gandhi's concept of a self-sufficient village industry that empowers seemingly helpless people, and successfully brought his ideas into practice at Anandwan.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The interim report of Justice Jain Commission, which oversaw the investigation into Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, indicted Karunanidhi for abetting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ).

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.

Amid widespread speculation that a violent conflict will soon break out, some of the people who arrived on the Mayflower II realize that the Chironians do not intend to harm the majority of the ship's occupants, but rather use a form of satyagraha ( Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent noncompliance ) to integrate the peaceful travelers into their society and isolate the small number who present a real threat.

Satwant Singh and Beant Singh fired thirty three bullets into Indira Gandhi's chest and abdomen.

Initially Beant Singh drew a. 38 revolver and fired three shots into Indira Gandhi's abdomen.

Baloo went on to become involved in politics, strongly supporting Gandhi's efforts to bring home rule to India and to fully integrate Dalit into Indian society.

Gandhi's views have influenced modern ethicists in forming a critique of terrorism, in which even those who support the goals must decry the methods and avoid making, for instance, a suicide bomber into a hero.

However, as Homer Jack notes of Gandhi's long correspondence with Jinnah on the topic of Pakistan: " Although Gandhi was personally opposed to the partition of India, he proposed an agreement [...] which provided that the Congress and the Moslem League would cooperate to attain independence under a provisional government, after which the question of partition would be decided by a plebiscite in the districts having a Moslem majority.

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.

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.

In the summer of 1934, three attempts were made on Gandhi's life.

" The Influence of Thoreau's ' Civil Disobedience ' on Gandhi's Satyagraha.

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.

* In Mohandas K. Gandhi's autobiography, he reflects on the beauty of compromise in deciding not to fight for the right to wear a turban in the Supreme Court of South Africa.

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.

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.

For example, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his autobiography about Gandhi's influence on his developing ideas regarding the civil rights movement in the United States:

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

Some rely on personal transformation ; others rely on small collectives, such as Mahatma Gandhi's spinning wheel and the self-sustaining village economy, as a mode of social change.

He was arrested on the morning of August 9 after Gandhi's call to the British to Quit India and sent to the Aga Khan Palace for imprisonment.

The Khudai Khidmatgar was founded on a belief in the power of Gandhi's notion of Satyagraha, a form of active non-violence as captured in an oath.

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

The controversial film, based on Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, was a critical success and was chosen as India ’ s official entry to the Oscars that year.

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

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.

for Gandhi's Truth ( 1969 ), which focused more on his theory as applied to later phases in the life cycle.

Specific inquiries were instituted on Sanjay Gandhi's management of the state-owned Maruti Udyog Ltd., the activities of the former Minister of Defence Bansi Lal and the 1971 Nagarwala scandal.

* Chapter 4-Hugs the Tree Gandhi today: a report on Mahatma Gandhi's successors, by Mark Shepard.