In October 1940, Gandhi and Nehru, abandoning their original stand of supporting Britain, decided to launch a limited civil disobedience campaign in which leading advocates of Indian independence were selected to participate one by one.

In 1919 Gandhi, with his weak position in Congress, decided to broaden his base by increasing his appeal to Muslims.

The government, represented by Lord Edward Irwin, decided to negotiate with Gandhi.

The Indian press has subsequently reported that Prabhakaran decided to eliminate Gandhi as he considered the ex-Prime Minister to be against the Tamil liberation struggle and feared that he might re-induct the IPKF, which Prabhakaran termed the " satanic force ", if he won the 1991 Indian general election.

Desai was a young lawyer in Ahmedabad when he decided to join Gandhi along with Narhari Parikh, Mohanlal Pandya and Ravi Shankar Vyas, and became his most devoted secretary for 25 years, from 1917 to 1942.

After India received information that Parmar had made assassination threats against Indira Gandhi, they found that Germany had decided that the evidence was weak, and he had been expelled and released to Canada on June 1984 after nearly a year in jail.

In June 1988, Prime Minister of India and Congress President Rajiv Gandhi decided to induct then Maharashtra Chief Minister Shankarrao Chavan into Union Cabinet as Finance Minister and Sharad Pawar was chosen to replace Chavan as chief minister.

For his next major action, Gandhi decided on a raid of the Dharasana Salt Works in Gujarat, 25 miles south of Dandi.

Then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi overruled the Cabinet Secretary and decided to accept the original recommendation of the Rustamji Committee to place the service under the Ministry of Defense.

In 1968, after Indira Gandhi had taken over as Prime Minister, it was decided that a full-fledged second security service was needed.

In January 1977 however, during the emergency declared controversially by Indira Gandhi, the government decided to suspend even the Right to Life and Personal Liberty by dispensing with Habeas corpus.

Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel wanted Subhas to use the money for political activities decided by the Congress, and when he refused, there was a litigation in Bombay High Court.

After the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in October 1984, a review was undertaken by a Committee of Secretaries and it was decided to entrust security of the Prime Minister to a Special Group under unitary and direct control of a designated Officer and the STF to provide immediate security cover both in New Delhi and outside.

In 1983 the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, decided to abandon the Project and on November 15 the Silent Valley forests were declared as a National Park.

He decided to wear Gandhi cap in the year 1942 that continued throughout the life.

Fujii was greatly inspired by his meeting with Mahatma Gandhi in 1931 and decided to devote his life to promoting non-violence.

On the advice of Gandhi, the two groups decided to remain in the Congress but to work in their separate ways.

At this juncture, Mahatma Gandhi decided to launch a Satyagraha campaign.

While the entire nation was celebrating the Independence Day, Gandhi decided to stay in Calcutta in an attempt to stem the communal carnage.

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.

Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi immediately dispatched 1, 600 troops by air to restore order in Malé.

Gandhi led Indians in protesting the national salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in demanding the British to immediately Quit India in 1942, during World War II.

Gandhi died almost immediately.

Eleven years after his film debut, Day-Lewis continued his film career with a small part in Gandhi ( 1982 ) as Colin, a street thug who bullies the title character, only to be immediately chastised by his high-strung mother.

Gowalia Tank Maidan ( now also known as August Kranti Maidan ) is a park in central Mumbai where Mahatma Gandhi issued the Quit India speech on 8 August 1942 decreeing that the British must leave India immediately or else mass agitations would take place.

Workers of Gandhi ’ s movement were released immediately, but assurances were sought from the revolutionaries that they no longer believed in violence.

When the news reached the ears of the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, she immediately ordered his release.

On reaching India he immediately rushed to Wardha to meet Mahatma Gandhi.

In 2011 he plays the lead role in the film Dear Friend Hitler which takes its name from two letters Mahatma Gandhi wrote Adolf Hitler, in 1939 immediately before World War II and Christmas Eve 1940 after the war had started, to prevent and to stop the war.

A stunned Haksar informed Malhotra that Mrs Gandhi had instructed nothing of the sort and urged him to inform the police immediately.

In Gandhi ’ s thought, ahimsa precludes not only the act of inflicting a physical injury, but also mental states like evil thoughts and hatred, unkind behavior such as harsh words, dishonesty and lying, all of which he saw as manifestations of violence incompatible with ahimsa. Gandhi believed ahimsa to be a creative energy force, encompassing all interactions leading one's self to find satya, " Divine Truth ".

Gandhi was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India.

In 1885, when Gandhi was 15, the couple's first child was born, but survived only a few days.

In January 1897, when Gandhi landed in Durban, a mob of white settlers attacked him and he escaped only through the efforts of the wife of the police superintendent.

Gandhi had not only moderated the views of younger men like Subhas Chandra Bose and Jawaharlal Nehru, who sought a demand for immediate independence, but also reduced his own call to a one year wait, instead of two.

The result was that Gandhi became not only a folk hero but the Congress was widely seen in the villages as his sacred instrument.

* 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.

* March 18 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to 6 years in prison for sedition ( he serves only 2 years ).

Gandhi criticised the 16 May proposal as being inherently divisive, but Patel, realising that rejecting the proposal would mean that only the League would be invited to form a government, lobbied the Congress Working Committee hard to give its assent to the 16 May proposal.

Gandhi won that award, but its director, Richard Attenborough, declared, " I was certain that not only would E. T.

He is also a recipient of the Gandhi Peace Prize and the Martin Luther King Award, the only recipient of the three major peace awards.

Gandhi envisioned satyagraha as not only a tactic to be used in acute political struggle, but as a universal solvent for injustice and harm.

In the early 1970s Gil participated in a resurgence of the Afro-Brazilian afoxé tradition in Carnaval, joining the Filhos de Gandhi ( Sons of Gandhi ) performance group, which only allowed black Brazilians to join.

He said socialism would only socialise poverty, and he described Gandhi as a masochist reactionary who worshipped poverty.

In June 1959, the couple had their only biological child, Stephan Gandhi Jones.

In 1908 Tolstoy wrote, and Gandhi read, A Letter to a Hindu, which outlines the notion that only by using love as a weapon through passive resistance could the native Indian people overthrow the colonial British Empire.

Indira's victory and the Congress's landslide victory in the 1971 Indian general election only left Indira Gandhi more powerful.

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.

Gandhi had asked that only men take part in the salt march, but eventually women began manufacturing and selling salt throughout India.

:" The Prince of Wales was due in Calcutta on 24 December, and any more violent disorder there had to be prevented at all costs ..... During the next two months over 30, 000 people were arrested in India as a whole, and of the top leadership of the Non-Cooperation Movement, only Gandhi remained free ….

Local conservation NGOs such as the Bombay Natural History Society ( BNHS ) and World Wide Fund for Nature-India ( WWF-India ) bring groups of urban residents from Mumbai and elsewhere, sometimes in collaboration with other organizations, for regular guided nature education walks in the nature trails of Sanjay Gandhi National Park and organize special trips when the rare Karvi flowers are in full bloom which only happens once every eight years.

Comparing Gandhi with Leo Tolstoy during the year he died, Pal noted that Tolstoy ' was an honest philosophical anarchist ' while Gandhi remained in his eyes as ' a papal autocrat ' Firm and ethically grounded, not only did he perceive the ' Congress Babel ' in terms of its shortsightedness in late 1920s or, Congress as an instance of repudiating debt's folly, composed of a generation ' that knows no Joseph ', Pal's critical comments should be located in context, since nobody can jump out of his skin of time.