* 1919 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.

Indian leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi strongly believed in this principle.

Some of which are based on Theosophical interpretations and were notably represented by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who made clear throughout his life and his own commentary on the Gita that it was " an allegory in which the battlefield is the soul and Arjuna, man's higher impulses struggling against evil.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | Gandhi promoted the principle of ahimsa very successfully by applying it to all spheres of life, particularly to politics.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi promoted the principle of ahimsa very successfully by applying it to all spheres of life, particularly to politics ( Swaraj ).

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Bombay, 1944.

From 1920 leaders such as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi began highly popular mass movements to campaign against the British Raj using largely peaceful methods.

With Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | M. K. Gandhi fasting, mid 1920s

* 1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

He became Congress President under the mentorship of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

Mohandas Karamchand GandhiGandhism is the collection of inspirations, principles, beliefs and philosophy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( known as Mahatma Gandhi ), who was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian Independence Movement.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar, a coastal town which was then part of the Bombay Presidency, British India.

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

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a figure known worldwide for advocating non-violent civil disobedience.

This epithet is commonly applied to prominent people like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Lalon Shah, Jyotirao Phule and Branch Rickey.

Some theorists suggest civil disobedience is, itself, a right, and it was advocated by thinkers such as Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

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Maulana Azad | Azad, Patel and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | Gandhi at an All India Congress Committee | AICC meeting in Bombay, 1940

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | Mohandas Gandhi spinning yarn on a charkha.

India's " Father of the Nation ," Mohandas K. Gandhi, was shot to death in 1948 by Nathuram Godse.

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

Philosophical anarchists of historical note include Mohandas Gandhi, William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Max Stirner, Benjamin Tucker, and Henry David Thoreau.

He collected funds for the civil rights campaigners led by Mohandas Gandhi in 1913.

Gandhian economics are the socio-economic principles expounded by Mohandas Gandhi.

* 1933 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against the British rule in India.

Mohandas and Kasturba had four more children, all sons: Harilal, born in 1888 ; Manilal, born in 1892 ; Ramdas, born in 1897 ; and Devdas, born in 1900.

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Gokhale ’ s firm belief in the need for universal education deeply inspired the next great man on the Indian political stage, Mohandas K. Gandhi ; his faith in western political institutions though rejected by Gandhi, was adopted by an independent India in 1950.

It covers the rise and fall of great empires and civilizations from Greece and Rome to China and West Asia ; great figures such as Ashoka and Genghis Khan, Mohandas K. Gandhi and Vladimir Lenin ; wars and revolutions, democracies and dictatorships.

For example, Genghis Khan, who is rarely recognized now by his original name, Temüjin ; or Mohandas Gandhi who is better known as Mahatma Gandhi.

The Chipko movement was formed in India ; influenced by Mohandas Gandhi, they set up peaceful resistance to deforestation by literally hugging trees ( leading to the term " tree huggers ").

Ghats such as these are useful for both mundane purposes ( such as cleaning ) and religious rites ( i. e. ritual bathing or ablutions ); there are also specific " shmashana " or " cremation " ghats where bodies are cremated waterside, allowing ashes to be washed away by rivers ; notable ones are Nigambodh Ghat and Raj Ghat in Delhi on the Yamuna, that latter of which was the cremation area for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and numerous political leaders after him, and the Manikarnika Ghat at Varanasi on the Ganges.

* October 2 – Mohandas Gandhi, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation ( d. 1948 )

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

Independence Day, one of the three national holidays in India ( the other two being the Republic Day on 26 January and Mohandas Gandhi's birthday on 2 October ), is observed in all Indian states and union territories.

* Gandhi chowk was named so for the first time, on 9 October 1920 on the occasion of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Birthday.

In October 1920, as he formed the Communist Party of India, he contacted his erstwhile revolutionary colleagues who, at this juncture, were hesitating between Radicalism ( Jugantar ) and Mohandas K. Gandhi ’ s novel programme.

Manilal Mohandas Gandhi ( 28 October 1892 – 4 April 1956 ) was the second of four sons of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi.

* Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( 1869 – 1948 ), better known as Mahatma Gandhi

Kasturba Mohandas Gandhi ( born Kasturba Makhanji )( 11 April 1869 – 22 February 1944 ) was the wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, marrying him in an arranged marriage in 1882.

* 22 February-Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( born 1869 ).