The Muslims had always been a minority within the subcontinent, and the prospect of an exclusively Hindu government made them wary of independence ; they were as inclined to mistrust Hindu rule as they were to resist the foreign Raj, although Gandhi called for unity between the two groups in an astonishing display of leadership.

" It is named in honor of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and has always been presented and received in person.

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!

Lohia is often called a maverick socialist, a cliched but nevertheless apt description. He gave that impression not to be controversial, but because he was always evolving his thoughts, and like his mentor, Gandhi, did not hesitate to speak the truth as he saw it.

After long deliberations, Gandhi declared that India could not be party to a war ostensibly being fought for democratic freedom while that freedom was denied to India itself.

Addressing the forum at its concluding session, he praised the WSF for demanding freedom in its most comprehensive form, and was happy that people had assembled under an important idea, rather than for narrow political ends ; after reflecting on corporations displacing governments in various countries, and on how Mahatma Gandhi had fought British colonisers non-violently with the strength of the masses, he predicted that vocal masses the world over would successfully fight by non-violent means the capturing of the world's resources by a few corporations in the name of globalisation.

Gandhi rejected the idea that injustice should, or even could, be fought against “ by any means necessary ” — if you use violent, coercive, unjust means, whatever ends you produce will necessarily embed that injustice.

The dissident parties formed an alliance called the National Democratic Front and fought against the Indian National Congress led by Indira Gandhi in the 1971 Indian general elections.

After Shastri's death in 1966, he contested for Prime Minister and fought a closely contested election with Indira Gandhi.

During the 1970s, under the leadership of Sanjay Gandhi, the Youth Congress undertook activities such as tree plantation, family planning, and fought against domestic violence and dowry deaths.

It was through leaders like Mahatma Gandhi that the toughest battle against untouchability were fought.

In 2009, Maneka fought and won from neighbouring Aonla while her son, Varun Gandhi fought and won from Pilibhit.

Some of his economic policies were criticised for removing the right of property and freedoms from the landowning peasants of Gujarat for whom Gandhi had fought in the early 1920s.

Some of which are based on Theosophical interpretations and were notably represented by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who made clear throughout his life and his own commentary on the Gita that it was " an allegory in which the battlefield is the soul and Arjuna, man's higher impulses struggling against evil.

From 1920 leaders such as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi began highly popular mass movements to campaign against the British Raj using largely peaceful methods.

* 1933 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against the British rule in India.

After witnessing racism, prejudice and injustice against Indians in South Africa, Gandhi began to question his place in society and his people's standing in the British Empire.

In 1906, the British declared war against the Zulu kingdom in Natal, Gandhi encouraged the British to recruit Indians.

With Congress now behind him in 1920, Gandhi had the base to employ non-cooperation, non-violence and peaceful resistance as his " weapons " in the struggle against the British Raj.

Gandhi then launched a new Satyagraha against the tax on salt in March 1930.

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.

** In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a fast protesting against British rule in India.

In the Congress, he was a resolute supporter of Gandhi against his Swarajist critics.

When Gandhi was in prison, Sardar Patel was asked by Members of Congress to lead the satyagraha in Nagpur in 1923 against a law banning the raising of the Indian flag.

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.

Although Chamberlain appears to have agreed with Gandhi that the treatment of the Indians was inappropriate, he was unwilling to take direct action against discriminatory legislation.

The BJP did not support Operation Bluestar and strongly protested against the violence towards Sikhs in Delhi that broke out in 1984 following the assassination of Indira Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards.

The Opposition parties ( including the Congress, the Left Front, Janata Dal ( Secular ), and various regional parties ) supported a second term for him, and Sonia Gandhi met him to request his candidature ; Vajpayee then met Narayanan, informed him that there was no consensus within the NDA on the question, and advised against his candidature.

The party was in the forefront during the agitation against the emergency ( 1975 – 77 ) imposed by the Indira Gandhi regime and thousands of its leaders and workers were imprisoned across India.

The BJP never supported Operation Bluestar, the BJP strongly protested the violence against Sikhs in Delhi that broke out in 1984, following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by one of her Sikh bodyguards.

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.

As a young barrister, Gandhi returned from his struggles against the Empire in South Africa and received personal guidance from Gokhale, including a knowledge and understanding of India and the issues confronting common Indians.

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.

However Gandhi and his party refused to help either the British or the American war effort against Germany and Japan in any way, leaving Roosevelt no choice but to back Churchill.

India's " Father of the Nation ," Mohandas K. Gandhi, was shot to death in 1948 by Nathuram Godse.

" India and the Unconscious: Erik Erikson on Gandhi ," International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 55: 519-26.

Owing to his role in Kosovo's history, Rugova has been dubbed " Father of the Nation " and " Gandhi of the Balkans ," awarded, among others, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, and posthumously declared a Hero of Kosovo.

" Adversity makes strange bed-fellows ," Gandhi remarked in his prayer meeting.

Winston Churchill, then prime minister, dismissed these requests in a fashion that Amery regarded as " Hitler-like ," by asking why, if the famine was so horrible, Gandhi had not yet died of starvation.

" These tracks, as well as " Smart " ( a. k. a. " Opportunity "), " Enemies ," and " Unwound ," were originally recorded as Gandhi tracks, Page Hamilton's previous band.

" Ryan reacted to criticism in The Toronto Sun, stating that it was " tantamount to a new form of McCarthyism ," and pointed out that Gandhi called for an academic boycott to end British rule in India.

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.

Paul Brunton also made a notable comment on Mahatma Gandhi and the struggle for Indian independence in general while speaking of his conversation with an Indian college student in his work " A Search in Secret India ," which reveals quite another facet of his personality: