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

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.

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.

Gandhi had asked that only men take part in the salt march, but eventually women began manufacturing and selling salt throughout India.

" Gandhi asked.

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.

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 ).

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 ".

Given Mountbatten's determination, Nehru and Patel's inability to deal with the Muslim League and lastly Jinnah's obstinacy, all Indian party leaders ( except Gandhi ) acquiesced to Jinnah's plan to divide India, which in turn eased Mountbatten's task.

Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, de-recognized all the rulers by a presidential order in 1969.

Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj — the independence of India from British domination.

Gandhi sought to practice non-violence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same.

Gandhi considered them all to be Indians, taking a lifetime view that " Indianness " transcended religion and caste.

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

Although Gandhi did not originate the All-India Muslim Conference, which directed the movement in India, he soon became its most prominent spokesman and attracted a strong base of Muslim support with local chapters in all Muslim centers in India.

After the massacre and subsequent violence, Gandhi began to focus on winning complete self-government and control of all Indian government institutions, maturing soon into Swaraj or complete individual, spiritual, political independence.

Fearing that the movement was about to take a turn towards violence, and convinced that this would be the undoing of all his work, Gandhi called off the campaign of mass civil disobedience.

As Gandhi wrote: “ They say, ' means are, after all, means '.

Veneration for all other religions was articulated by Gandhi:

* September 20 – Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru demand that all British troops depart India.

Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau's work, particularly Civil Disobedience, as did " right-wing theorist Frank Chodorov devoted an entire issue of his monthly, Analysis, to an appreciation of Thoreau.

Tilak saw the spark in Mohandas Gandhi and tried his best to convince Gandhi to leave the idea of " Total Ahinsa " and try to get " Swarajya " by all means.

These three people — Akhenaten, Einstein and Gandhi — were all driven by an inner vision which altered the age in which they lived, in particular Akhenaten in religion, Einstein in science, and Gandhi in politics.

When Jinnah called for Direct Action, on 16 August 1946, Gandhi was infuriated and visited the most riot prone areas to stop the massacres, personally.

" Feroze Gandhi, Speech in Parliament, 16 December 1957.

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.

The main campus at Chandigarh is spread over 550 acres in sectors 14 and 25, and having fairly well-marked zones: the teaching area in the north-east, with the Central Library, Fine Arts Museum, and three-winged structure of the Gandhi Bhawan forming its core ; the sports complex, the health centre, and the shopping centre in the middle ; 16 university hostel and residential area in the south-east, stretching into the adjacent sector 25 which also houses the University Institute of Engineering and Technology and Dr. Harvansh Singh Judge Institute of dental Sciences and Hospital, UIAMS, Institute of Biological sciences etc.

In May 1991, a woman Tiger who had allegedly been raped by Indian Peace Keeping Force soldiers blew herself up, killing former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, along with 16 bystanders.

The issue was resolved during the premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri, who under great pressure from Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, was made to give assurances that English would continue to be used as the official language as long the non-Hindi speaking states wanted.

To calm the situation, Shastri took the advice of Indira Gandhi and gave assurances that English would continue to be used as the official language as long the non-Hindi speaking states wanted.

The book cites an irony when it states that the ' Garibi Hatao ' policies followed by Mrs. Indira Gandhi were actually working counter-productive and throwing millions of Indian further into poverty rather than alleviating their plight.

Jacob Copeman, a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, states in his article “ Blood Will Have Blood: A Study in Indian Political Ritual ,” that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi are the two politicians who are mainly “ remembered ” during the blood donations ( 131 ).

SAARC Summit 1986, Dhaka Bangabhaban ; HM Ershad, Rajiv Gandhi, Ziaul Huq among other Head of States Ershad played a key role during the SAARC Summit in 1985, which was the first summit held in Dhaka, uniting all member states of South-East Asian States.

Another report states that the descendants of Mahatma Gandhi do not want to have the ashes removed because it would entail breaking the shrines.