When he bowed, one of the girls flanking and supporting Gandhi, Abha Chattopadhyay, said to him, " Brother, Bapu is already late " and tried to put him off but he pushed her aside and shot Gandhi in the chest three times at point-blank range with a Beretta M 1934 semi-automatic pistol.

The incident resulted in Gandhi being pushed out of the room, and ill-feeling was apparently a factor in his departure for South Africa in 1893.

The essay later influenced Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Buber and Leo Tolstoy through its advocacy of nonviolent resistance.

Mahatma Gandhi was deeply influenced ( particularly through the guidance of Shrimad Rajchandra ) by Jain tenets such as peaceful, protective living and honesty, and made them an integral part of his own philosophy.

Jain ideas and practices powerfully influenced Gandhi, particularly through his mother, who was a devout Jain.

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 attempted to bridge these differences through many means, including a three-week fast in the autumn of 1924, but with limited success.

The word satyagraha itself was coined through a public contest that Gandhi sponsored through the newspaper he published in South Africa, ' Indian Opinion ', when he realized that neither the common, contemporary Hindu language nor the English language contained a word which fully expressed his own meanings and intentions when he talked about his nonviolent approaches to conflict.

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While in India GMR Group operates, through joint ventures, Indira Gandhi International Airport and Rajiv Gandhi International Airport.

Despite the disapproval of Union Cabinet, Premier Indira Gandhi allotted secret funds for these aerospace projects through her discretionary powers under Kalam's directorship.

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 Central government attempted to seek a political solution to the grievances of the Sikhs through the Rajiv-Longowal Accord, which took place between the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Harchand Singh Longowal, the then President of the Akali Dal, who was assassinated a few months later.

" Sunderlal Bahuguna helped bring the movement to prominence through a 5, 000-kilometer trans-Himalaya march conducted from 1981 to 1983, travelling from village to village, gathering support for the movement and meeting with the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

He knew of Gandhi through a book by Romain Rolland.

The Award has also recognized individuals for having made significant contributions, through cooperative and non-violent means in the spirit of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, to the struggle to achieve a sustainable civilization founded on enduring international peace.

The Gandhi Peace Award was most recently ( May 2012 ) presented to Amy Goodman for her contribution to promoting a sustainable peace through the promotion of transparently truthful journalism — one essential part of which is to report the true horrors and long-term after-effects of war, to those who support war oblivious to the actual consequences.

It is also a railway station on the Central Railway line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway It is nestled alongside the foothills of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park with easy access to the Eastern Express Highway and Navi Mumbai through the Mulund-Airoli Bridge.

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.

The call for new leadership brought Gandhi to the forefront in 1921 and through him the first tricolour flag.

Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi used the term in reference to the commitments made by the USSR through the Declaration of Delhi of two years previous.

For Christians, this human potential is realized most perfectly in Jesus, precisely because he is both God and human, and is manifested in others through their association with him, whether conscious, as in the case of Christian mystics, or unconscious, with regard to spiritual persons who follow other traditions, such as Gandhi.

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.

In 1928, Gandhi agreed to Nehru's demands and proposed a resolution that called for the British to grant dominion status to India within two years.

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.

Concerning the partition of India to create Pakistan, while the Indian National Congress and Gandhi called for the British to quit India, the Muslim League passed a resolution for them to divide and quit, in 1943.

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.

During this period Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi stated that a resolution was adopted by the Congress to satisfy the Sikh community.

* Rejected ' Quit India ' resolution drafted by Mohandas K. Gandhi 27 April 1942

* Gandhi, Hinduism and Non-Violence at the United Nations by Varun Soni

Despite the setbacks, Gandhi chose to continue studying in England and spent a few months at the Badminton School in Bristol before clearing the Oxford entrance exam in 1937.

During her stay in the UK, Nehru frequently met her future husband Feroze Gandhi, whom she knew from Allahabad, and who was studying at the London School of Economics.

The international airport at New Delhi is named Indira Gandhi International Airport in her honour.

Nehru first met Gandhi in 1916, at the Lucknow session of the Congress.

In his last year, unhappy at the partition of India, Gandhi worked to stop the carnage between Muslims on the one hand and Hindus and Sikhs that raged in the border area between India and Pakistan.

Gandhi and his wife Kasturba Gandhi | Kasturba ( 1902 ) In 1888, Gandhi travelled to London, England, to study law at University College London, where he studied Indian law and jurisprudence and to train as a barrister at the Inner Temple.

In South Africa, Gandhi faced the discrimination directed at all coloured people.

Gandhi focused his attention on Indians while in South Africa and opposed the idea that Indians should be treated at the same level as native Africans while in South Africa.

Bhana and Vahed argue that Gandhi, at first, shared racial notions prevalent of the times and that his experiences in jail sensitized him to the plight of blacks.

Gandhi in 1918, at the time of the Kheda and Champaran Satyagrahas

Unhappy wIth this, the peasantry appealed to Gandhi at his ashram in Ahmedabad.

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.

Mahadev Desai ( left ) reading out a letter to Gandhi from the viceroy at Birla House, Bombay, 7 April 1939

As the war progressed, Gandhi intensified his demand for independence, calling for the British to Quit India in a speech at Gowalia Tank Maidan.

* 1939 – In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.

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

Biko can thus be seen as a follower of Fanon and Aimé Césaire, in contrast to more multi-racialist ANC leaders such as Nelson Mandela after his imprisonment at Robben Island, and Albert Luthuli who were first disciples of Gandhi.