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Gandhi and claimed
During this period, Gandhi claimed to be a " highly orthodox Hindu " and in January 1921 during a speech at a temple in Vadtal, he spoke of the relevance of non-cooperation to Hindu Dharma, " At this holy place, I declare, if you want to protect your ' Hindu Dharma ', non-cooperation is first as well as the last lesson you must learn up.
The Khudai Khidmatgar were a non-violent group, and Ghaffar Khan claimed to have been inspired by Mahatma Gandhi.
Various notable individuals have claimed that spiritual inspiration led them to a simple living lifestyle, such as Francis of Assisi, Ammon Hennacy, Leo Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore, Albert Schweitzer, and Mohandas Gandhi.
Supporters of Indira Gandhi claimed to be the real Congress party, adopting the name Indian National Congress ( R )-where " R " stood for " Requisition.
Gandhi later claimed that success at Bardoli confirmed his belief in Satyagraha and Swaraj: " It is only gradually that we shall come to know the importance of the victory gained at Bardoli ... Bardoli has shown the way and cleared it.
Reviews of Lelyveld ’ s Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India claimed that the book portrays Gandhi as a bisexual with a relationship with one of his disciples, the German-Jewish architect and bodybuilder Hermann Kallenbach, a charge that Lelyveld insists is incorrect.
After the rains, while speaking to a TV channel, Govinda claimed that he had got Rs 150 million sanctioned for his flood-hit constituency after speaking to Sonia Gandhi.
She claimed many prominent figures were Communist sympathizers, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, Franz Boas and Sigmund Freud.
Lord Wavell claimed during his meeting on 27 August 1946 that Gandhi had told him, " If India wants bloodbath she shall have it ... if a bloodbath was necessary, it would come about in spite of non-violence ".

Gandhi and Congress
The Nationalist school has focused on Congress, Gandhi, Nehru and high level politics.
He became Congress President under the mentorship of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
Nehru first met Gandhi in 1916, at the Lucknow session of the Congress.
In the rift that formed within the Congress following the sudden closure of the non-cooperation movement after the Chauri Chaura incident, Nehru remained loyal to Gandhi and did not join the Swaraj Party formed by his father Motilal Nehru and CR Das.
Nehru nominated Gandhi to succeed him as Congress President during his absence in jail, but Gandhi declined, and Nehru then nominated his father as his successor.
When the Congress party under Nehru chose to contest elections and accept power under the Federation scheme, Gandhi resigned from party membership.
Following the Quit India resolution passed by the Congress party in Bombay ( now Mumbai ) on 8 Aug 1942, the entire Congress working committee, including Gandhi and Nehru, was arrested and imprisoned.
The Official Languages Act was eventually amended in 1967 by the Congress Government headed by Indira Gandhi to guarantee the indefinite use of Hindi and English as official languages.
Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj — the independence of India from British domination.
Gandhi took leadership of Congress in 1920 and began a steady escalation of demands ( with Intermittent compromises or pauses ) until on 26 January 1930 the Indian National Congress declared the independence of India.
Gandhi and Congress withdrew their support of the Raj when the Viceroy declared war on Germany in September 1939 without consulting anyone.
Tensions escalated until Gandhi demanded immediate independence in 1942 and the British responded by imprisoning him and tens of thousands of Congress leaders for the duration.
In 1919 Gandhi, with his weak position in Congress, decided to broaden his base by increasing his appeal to Muslims.
In 1920 Gandhi became a major leader in Congress.
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.
In December 1921, Gandhi was invested with executive authority on behalf of the Indian National Congress.
In this year, Gandhi was persuaded to preside over the Congress session to be held in Belgaum.
Gandhi pushed through a resolution at the Calcutta Congress in December 1928 calling on the British government to grant India dominion status or face a new campaign of non-cooperation with complete independence for the country as its goal.
Congress in the 1920s appealed to peasants by portraying Gandhi as a sort of messiah ( the long-awaited savior of an entire people ), a strategy that succeeded in incorporating radical forces within the peasantry into the nonviolent resistance movement.
The result was that Gandhi became not only a folk hero but the Congress was widely seen in the villages as his sacred instrument.
Also as a result of the pact, Gandhi was invited to attend the Round Table Conference in London as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress.
In 1934 Gandhi resigned from Congress party membership.

Gandhi and alone
In the 1920s, Saint Thomas Christian leaders such as George Joseph were advised by Mahatma Gandhi to detach from Vaikom Satyagraha, an agitation for the temple entry rights of avarna Hindus, as he considered the issue to be one of concern to Hindus alone.
Swaraj lies on that route, and that alone is the cure ..." Gandhi recruited heavily from the Bardoli Satyagraha participants for the Dandi march, which passed through many of the same villages that took part in the Bardoli protests.
Comp Sc, BCA, B. Sc / B. Com degree of the Mahatma Gandhi University or any other degree, accepted as equivalent there to by the Mahatma Gandhi University are alone eligible to apply.
Inspired by the vision of the Gandhi addressing a public meeting, he went out alone and later returned to college.

Gandhi and represented
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.
The government, represented by Lord Edward Irwin, decided to negotiate with Gandhi.
Virachand Gandhi ( 1864 – 1901 ) from Mahuva represented Jains at the first World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 and won a silver medal.
Gandhi represented Jains in Chicago because the Great Jain Saint Param Pujya Acharya Vijayanandsuri, also known as Acharya Atmaram, was invited to represent the Jain religion at the first World Parliament of Religions.

Gandhi and political
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.
* Inder Malhotra, Indira Gandhi: A personal and political biography ( 1991 ) ISBN 0-340-53548-2
Nehru's political apprenticeship under Gandhi lasted from 1919 to 1929.
Although Gandhi did not officially designate Nehru his political heir until 1942, the country as early as the mid-1930s saw in Nehru the natural successor to Gandhi.
Mohandas Karamchand GandhiGandhism is the collection of inspirations, principles, beliefs and philosophy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( known as Mahatma Gandhi ), who was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian Independence Movement.
Gandhi spent 21 years in South Africa, where he developed his political views, ethics and political leadership skills.
After the massacre and subsequent violence, Gandhi began to focus on winning complete self-government and control of all Indian government institutions, maturing soon into Swaraj or complete individual, spiritual, political independence.
Ambedkar and his allies also felt Gandhi was undermining Dalit political rights.
Gandhi also wanted to avoid being a target for Raj propaganda by leading a party that had temporarily accepted political accommodation with the Raj.
Gandhi was criticised by some Congress party members and other Indian political groups, both pro-British and anti-British.
Gandhi met Jinnah in September 1944 in Bombay but Jinnah rejected, on the grounds that it fell short of a fully independent Pakistan, his proposal of the right of Muslim provinces to opt out of substantial parts of the forthcoming political union.
At this point Gandhi called off the struggle, and around 100, 000 political prisoners were released, including the Congress's leadership.
When asked about the Indo-British political situation, he had no comment, but his followers explained that he had told Gandhi to abandon politics.
* Henry David Thoreau: Influential American thinker on such diverse later political positions and topics such as pacifism, anarchism, environmentalism and civil disobedience who influenced later important political activists such as Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy.
Rajiv Gandhi was born into India's most famous political family.
Elected to Sanjay's Lok Sabha ( parliamentary ) constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh state in February 1981, Gandhi became an important political advisor to his mother.
The nonviolent influence of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. upon Biko is then suspect, as Biko knew that for his struggle to give rise to physical liberation, it was necessary that it exist within the political realities of the apartheid regime, and Biko's nonviolence may be seen more as a tactic than a personal conviction.
* October 2 – Mohandas Gandhi, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation ( d. 1948 )
Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
* 1993: The biopic Sardar was produced and directed by Ketan Mehta and featured noted Indian actor Paresh Rawal as Patel ; it focused on Patel's leadership in the years leading up to independence, the partition of India, India's political integration and Patel's relationship with Gandhi and Nehru.

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