Mahatma Gandhi said of the British peace offer: " It is not fear of losing more lives that has compelled a reluctant offer from England but it is the shame of any further imposition of agony upon a people that loves liberty above everything else ".

The Nationalist school has focused on Congress, Gandhi, Nehru and high level politics.

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.

The International Airport constructed at Hyderabad has been named Rajiv Gandhi International Airport and was inaugurated by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

Despite this and reports of Indira Gandhi keeping red pandas as pets when she was a child, widespread adoption of these animals as pets has not been reported.

Various religious and moral thinkers ( e. g. Tolstoy and Gandhi ) have admired its message, and it has been one of the main sources of Christian pacifism.

This has been said to be one of the major reasons behind his decision to kill Gandhi.

The first floor has a statue of the Bharatmata stands along with freedom fighters including Subhas Chandra Bose, Veer Savarkar, Mahatma Gandhi, Chatrapati Shivaji, Guru Govind Singh, Rani of Jhansi and more.

When the Babri Masjid was demolished on 6 December 1992, he described the event as the " greatest tragedy India has faced since the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi ".

The University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore currently has administrative head quarters at the Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra ( GKVK ) on the Bangalore-Hyderabad Highway.

He has played with musicians such as: Eddi Busnello, Nello Da Pont, Giovanni Maier, Gianluigi Trovesi, Carlo Actis Dato, Giorgio Pacorig, Daniele Cavallanti, Michele Rabbia, Massimo De Mattia, Daniele Dagaro, Achille Succi, Ermes Ghirardini, Lauro Rossi, Romano Todesco, and U. T. Gandhi.

Since then, Sonia Gandhi has been the President of the Indian National Congress Party.

While Priyanka has so far restricted herself to organising her mother's election campaigns and taking care of Sonia's constituency, Rahul Gandhi has gone on to take formal charge as General Secretary of the Congress Party.

Citing Gandhi, who was an adherent of it, she has followed the tradition for thirty years, saying that it has kept her healthy and vigorous.

It has been regularly used for political rallies — famous speakers have included Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill.

Although the beatitude concerning the meek has been much praised even by some non-Christians such as Mahatma Gandhi, some view the admonition to meekness skeptically, e. g. Friedrich Nietzsche saw the verse as embodying what he perceived as a slave morality.

Although given Whiteway soon abandoned Tolstoy's principles, it has been regarded by many, including Gandhi who visited in 1909, as a failed Tolstoyan experiment.

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.

With devotion to Mahatma Gandhi ’ s revolutionary concept of ‘ Nai Talim ’ system of education, Gandhigram Rural Institute has developed academic programmes in Rural Development, Rural Economics and Extension Education, Rural Oriented Sciences, Cooperation, Development Administration, Rural Sociology, English and Communicative Studies, and, Tamil and Indian Languages.

He also wrote an autobiography ( 1969 ), and has been the subject of biographies by Eknath Easwaran ( see article ) and Rajmohan Gandhi ( see " References " section, below ).

Kodagu is considered rich with wildlife and has three wildlife sanctuaries and one national park: the Brahmagiri, Talakaveri, and Pushpagiri Wildlife Sanctuaries, and the Nagarhole National Park, also known as the Rajiv Gandhi National Park.

In his attempt to prove himself thus, in November 2008 Gandhi held interviews at his 12, Tughlak Lane residence in New Delhi to handpick at least 40 people who will make up the think-tank of the Indian Youth Congress ( IYC ), an organisation that he has been keen to transform since he was appointed general secretary in September 2007.

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.

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.

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.

India is an 80 % Hindu country, yet its prime minister is a Sikh ( Manmohan Singh ), the chairperson of the ruling alliance is a Catholic woman of Italian birth ( Sonia Gandhi ), and three out of the twelve presidents of India have been Muslims

The Khudai Khidmatgar were a non-violent group, and Ghaffar Khan claimed to have been inspired by Mahatma Gandhi.

After the assassination, many criticized the Indian government for not doing more to protect Gandhi who, earlier in the week, had been the target of a bomb plot by the same conspirators.

It served as a model for labour colleges around the world, and Gandhi made a point of visiting during a brief stay in Oxford in 1931 because he had been so inspired by the writings of John Ruskin on workers ’ education, just as the college founders had been.

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.

The pro-Khalistan activists have alleged that the Indira Gandhi government had been preparing for an attack on their shrine for over a year.

Laxmi was the daughter of one of his early followers, a wealthy Jain who had been a key supporter of the National Congress Party during the struggle for Indian independence, with close ties to Gandhi, Nehru and Morarji Desai.

Though the concept had not been given a name, Gandhi advocated for small, local and predominantly village-based technology to help India's villages become self-reliant.

Shridharani, a popular writer and journalist as well as a vibrant and theatrical speaker, had been a protege of Gandhi and had been jailed in the Salt March.

In parallel to his university job, he travelled throughout India under the name Acharya Rajneesh ( Acharya means teacher or professor ; Rajneesh was a nickname he had acquired in childhood ), giving lectures critical of socialism and Gandhi.

Goldcrest had been responsible for critical and commercial hits such as Chariots of Fire ( 1981 ) and Gandhi ( 1982 ) earlier in the eighties, but had hit a lean spell with such films as Revolution ( 1985 ) and Absolute Beginners ( 1986 ).

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.

Mistry is generally critical of P. M. Gandhi in the book.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, among other Indian leaders, was extremely critical of the Act and argued that not everyone should get punishment in response to isolated political crimes.

For instance, Gandhi draws a moral equivalence between the Nazis and British imperialists, something the other elements of the narrative are critical of, are Gandhi's real-world assertions.

Despite his belief in Hinduism, Gandhi was also critical of many of the social practices of Hindus and sought to reform the religion.

Gandhi was critical of the hypocrisy in organised religion, rather than the principles on which they were based.