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.

Firstly, her younger son Sanjay had been her chosen heir ; but after his death in a flying accident in June 1980, his mother persuaded a reluctant elder son Rajiv Gandhi to quit his job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981.

Nehru had hoped to elevate Maulana Azad as the pre-eminent leaders of Indian Muslims, but in this, he was undermined by Gandhi, who continued to treat Jinnah as the voice of Indian Muslims.

On 15 January 1941 Gandhi had stated: " Some say Pandit Nehru and I were estranged.

Gandhi called on the British to leave India ; Nehru, though reluctant to embarrass the allied war effort, had no alternative but to join Gandhi.

His prestige was restored unwittingly by Gandhi, who had been released from prison on medical grounds in May 1944 and had met Jinnah in Bombay in September.

The Indian classics, especially the stories of Shravana and king Harishchandra, had a great impact on Gandhi in his childhood.

Gandhi's father, Karamchand Gandhi, had also died earlier that year.

Gandhi was called to the bar in June 1891 and then left London for India, where he learned that his mother had died while he was in London and that his family had kept the news from him.

The South African experience exposed handicaps to Gandhi that he had not known about.

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.

This was the third time that Gandhi had called off a major campaign.

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.

Gandhi had also refused to support the untouchables in 1924 – 25 when they were campaigning for the right to pray in temples.

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 had a clash with Subhas Chandra Bose, who had been elected president in 1938, and who had previously expressed a lack of faith in non-violence as a means of protest.

Stanley Wolpert has argued, The " plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi ... who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one.

Baba and Gandhi had three meetings onboard, including one that lasted for three hours.

When asked about the Indo-British political situation, he had no comment, but his followers explained that he had told Gandhi to abandon politics.

The British press highlighted these meetings, but an aide to Gandhi said, " You may say emphatically that Gandhi never asked Meher Baba for help or for spiritual or other advice.

When Gandhi asked for a Gujarati activist to devote himself completely to the assignment, Patel volunteered, much to Gandhi's personal delight.

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.

Gandhi asked all 16 states representatives and Congress to elect the right person and Sardar Patel's name was proposed by 13 states representatives out of 16, but Patel respected Gandhi's request to not be the first prime minister.

Discouraged, he abandoned acting and returned to India, where he worked as an editor and journalist until the early 1980s, when Richard Attenborough asked Seth to play Jawaharlal Nehru in Gandhi ( 1982 ).

The Indian Army used seven Vijayanta | Vijayanta Tanks during the operationIndira Gandhi first asked Lt. Gen. S. K. Sinha, then Vice-Chief of Indian Army and who was to succeed as the Army chief, to prepare a position paper for assault on the Golden Temple.

While Rakesh was in space, he was asked by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on a famous conversation, who asked him how does India look from space, Rakesh replied " Saare Jahan se Achcha Hindustan Hamara " meaning ' ur land of Hindustan, is the Best in the world '.

On 8 February 1921, he attended a meeting in Gorakhpur, where Mahatma Gandhi asked people to resign from government jobs as part of the non-cooperation movement.

Gandhi remarked, " On bended knees I asked for bread and I have received stone instead.

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There he asked Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi for help.

However Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the leader of the breakaway faction from the Congress, knowing that Sanjiva Reddy was too independent a person to toe her line, asked her partymen to " vote according to their conscience ", rather than the diktat of the old guard.

She accused many foreign dignitaries including Amitabh Bachchan, Bill Clinton, Robert Redford, Prince Charles, Al Gore, Sonia Gandhi of conspiring to kill her but her petition in court was dismissed for lack of evidence and when she was asked to show her evidences, it was nothing but scribblings on notepad In an Interview to film magazine dated 1989, she said

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi asked Gen. Sinha to compose a plan to attack Golden Temple, the holiest of all Sikh shrines.

According to this pact, Gandhi was asked to call off the Civil Disobedience Movement ( CDM ) and if he did so the prisoners of the British government would be freed excepting the criminal prisoners, i. e. those who had killed British officials.

After the crackdown, Tajuddin Ahmad met with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on April 3, 1971 and asked for all possible aid, by which time the Indian government had already opened East Pakistan border and the BSF was offering limited aid to the Bengali resistance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

:" 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.