Yasmin Khan argued that Gandhi's death and funeral helped consolidate the authority of the new Indian state under Nehru and Patel.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This letter, along with Tolstoy's views and preaching, helped to form Mohandas Gandhi's views about non-violent resistance.

Indira Gandhi's father was Jawaharlal Nehru and her mother was Kamla Nehru.

Frank argues that Gandhi's assumption of emergency powers in 1975 resulted in the weakening of the " legitimate and impartial machinery of government ", and her increasing " paranoia " of opposing political groups led her to instigate a " despotic policy of playing castes, religions and political groups against each other for political advantage ".

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.

Patel was particularly attracted to Gandhi's inclination to action — apart from a resolution condemning the arrest of political leader Annie Besant, Gandhi proposed that volunteers march peacefully demanding to meet her.

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.

Assassination of Indira Gandhi: Indira Gandhi's blood-stained saree and her belongings at the time of her assassination, preserved at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum in New Delhi.

It was alleged that Ray was appointed because he was considered to be a supporter of Gandhi's government, during a time when her government was becoming increasingly mired in a political and constitutional crisis.

Dhar, was an economist and the head of Indira Gandhi's secretariat and one of her closest advisers.

The woman turned out to be Stalin's daughter Svetlana, desperately seeking extension of her visa to build a memorial for her late husband Brajesh Singh of the Kalkanker royal family. Since the erstwhile USSR was opposed to India entertaining Svetlana, even the fact that Singh's nephew, Dinesh Singh, was in Indira Gandhi's inner circle did not help. Lohia, the stormy petrel of Indian politics, was her last hope.

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.

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.

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.

" 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.

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

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 ".

Almost the entire Indian National Congress leadership, and not just at the national level, was imprisoned without trial within hours after Gandhi's speech — at least 60, 000 people.

After Gandhi's assassination Vinoba Bhave formed the Sarva Seva Sangh at the national level and Sarvodya Mandals at the regional level to the carry on integrated village service-with the end purpose of achieving the goal of Swaraj.

As Principal Secretary, P. N. Haksar fashioned Indira Gandhi's decision about the timing and level of support to be given to Bangladeshi freedom struggle.