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 and Ambedkar often clashed because Ambedkar sought to remove the Dalits out of the Hindu community, while Gandhi tried to save Hinduism by exorcising untouchability.

Mahatma Gandhi and Ambedkar often clashed because Ambedkar sought to remove the Dalits out of the Hindu community, while Gandhi tried to save Hinduism by exorcising untouchability.

Bhojpuri Academy chairperson Ravikant Dubey, in separate letters addressed to Lok Sabha ( LS ) Speaker Meira Kumar, leader of Opposition in LS Sushma Swaraj, AICC general secretary and MP Rahul Gandhi, BJP MP Murli Manohar Joshi and several other MPs, sought their support for inclusion of Bhojpuri language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.

The Shivaji Park Residential area, a predominantly upper middle class residential zone, has also become a highly sought after residential area in South Mumbai because of its proximity to the Dadar Chowpatty, Shivaji Park, Mahatma Gandhi Olympic Swimming Pool and the famous Siddhivinayak temple in Prabhadevi.

Anticipating revenge of Hindus against Muslims in Calcutta after the transfer of power, Suhrawardy sought help from Gandhi.

A sense that the movement had failed depressed many nationalists, while Jinnah and the Muslim League, as well as Congress opponents like the Communists sought to gain political mileage, criticizing Gandhi and the Congress Party ..

He was among the first to criticize Gandhi or the ' Gandhi cult ' since it ` sought to replace the present government by no government or by the priestly autocracy of the Mahatma.

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

To this end, the Indira Gandhi Government sought to make it clear to the Sri Lankan President, Jayewardene that armed intervention in support of the Tamil movement was an option India would consider if any diplomatic solutions should fail.

Influenced by Mahatma Gandhi, he sought to incorporate simple designs with local materials and achieved fame with his approach to sustainable architecture as well as in organic architecture.

After his release from prison in 1924, Gandhi sought to bring back the Swarajists to the Congress and re-unite the party.

Gandhi sought to purify his soul and expiate his sins, in what he saw as his role in allowing terrible tragedies to happen.

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

This move was most vigorously protested in India, as Gandhi and Indian Muslims united behind the symbolism of the Ottoman Caliph in the Khilafat ( or " Caliphate ") Movement, which sought to reinstate the Caliph deposed by Ataturk.

When Saraswati found no way of tackling this situation, he sought advice from Gandhi, who was in Patna Saraswati later said that Gandhi told him, " the zamindars will remove the difficulties of the peasants.

Satyagraha ( ) is a philosophy and practice of nonviolent resistance developed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( also known as " Mahatma " Gandhi ).

In modern times, it was refined by Mohandas Gandhi ( 1869-1948 ) into the practice of steadfast nonviolent opposition which he called " satyagraha ".

He was raised in the countryside of Gujarat in a family of Gurjar Leva-Patidars Vallabhbhai Patel was employed in successful practice as a lawyer when he was first inspired by the work and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi.

After Gandhi moved to South Africa to practice law, she traveled to South Africa in 1897 to be with her husband.

) The ideal which Gandhi strove to put into practice in his ashrams was, he hoped, one that he could persuade the whole of India to embrace, becoming a light to the other nations of the world.

The Veteran leader for his belief and practice of Gandhian principles resulted in him being also known as Thar Ka Gandhi.

There was no greater prince of peace and apostle of non-violence than Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, whom we have lost, but yet, he said it was better to take the sword than to surrender, fail or run away.

Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world.

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.

Gandhi expanded his non-violence platform to include the swadeshi policy — the boycott of foreign-made goods, especially British goods.

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.

* December 24 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian spiritual non-violence leader writes his second letter to Adolf Hitler addressing him " My friend ", requesting him to stop the war Germany had begun.

The conference, attended by Arab and Indian academics, UN officials and diplomats discussed the Gandhi ’ s teaching of non-violence, austerity and spiritualism with particular reference to the Arab world today.

Nathuram Vinayak Godse ( 19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949 ), was the sole assassin of Mahatma Gandhi — the pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism in British ruled India and apostle of non-violence — shooting Gandhi in the chest three times at point blank range on 30 January 1948 in New Delhi.

He was closely identified with Gandhi because of his non-violence principles and he is known in India as the ' Frontier Gandhi '.

The political philosophy most closely associated with India is the one of ahimsa ( non-violence ) and Satyagraha, popularized by Mahatma Gandhi during the Indian struggle for independence.

Deciding that Indians were not ready to make a stand consistent with the principle of ahimsa ( non-violence ), an integral part of satyagraha, Gandhi suspended the resistance.

This philosophy finds its inspiration in the non-violence movements of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.

" The group's philosophy is hinged on the principle of non-violence as propagated by Mahatma Gandhi.

In reflection, Gandhi felt that he had acted too hastily in encouraging people to revolt against the British Raj without sufficiently emphasizing the importance of ahimsa ( non-violence ) and without adequately training the people to exercise restraint in the face of attack.

He was to later explain his frustration to Gandhi, in a story he told Muklaika Bannerjee, " If the cook comes to slaughter this chicken's baby, is non-violence on the part of the chicken likely to save the younger life?

Pietro Ameglio ( born in Uruguay 1958 ) is an Uruguayan-born naturalized Mexican citizen, He authored Gandhi y la desobediencia civil, México hoy ( Gandhi and the civil disobedience, Mexico today ) ( Plaza and Valdés, Mexico, 2002 ), a book on non-violence in Mexico.

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

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 felt responsible for the killings, reproached himself for not emphasizing non-violence more firmly, and feared that the entire Non-Cooperation Movement would degenerate into an orgy of violence between the British-controlled army and police and mobs of freedom-fighters, alienating and hurting millions of common Indians.

Gandhi ’ s commitments to non-violence, human freedom, equality and justice arose from his personal examination.

Homer Jack notes in his reprint of this article, " To Every Briton " ( The Gandhi Reader ) that, " to Gandhi, all war was wrong, and suddenly it ' came to him like a flash ' to appeal to the British to adopt the method of non-violence.