Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Leader of the Indian National Liberation Movement

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948), honorably known as "Mahatma Gandhi", is the leader of the Indian national liberation movement and the leader of the Indian National Congress party.

Mohandas kalamchand Gandhi was born in a Hindu family and his father was the Prime Minister of the local state. Gandhi went to England to study law at the age of 19. In 1893, Gandhi came to South Africa under British rule and led South African Indians to fight for rights. He combined the Hindu ideas of benevolence, vegetarianism and non killing with the benevolence thoughts in the Bible and the Koran, and absorbed the ideological essence of Solon, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy and others, and gradually formed the theory of Non Violence and non cooperation. In 1915, Gandhi returned to India and soon became the actual leader of the Congress party, making "Non Violence and non cooperation" the guiding ideology of the Congress party, and began to rush for India's independence. After World War II, India was divided into India and Pakistan. Facing the conflict between the two countries, Gandhi, who had an important influence on both sides, repeatedly tried to persuade them by fasting and called for unity. On January 30th, 1948, Gandhi was assassinated by Hindu die hards. [1]

Gandhi is the father of India and the founder of Gandhi doctrine, a modern political theory that advocates nonviolent resistance. His spiritual thoughts led the country towards independence from British colonial rule. His philosophy of "Non Violence" has influenced nationalists all over the world and the international movement for peaceful change.

Early experience
Gandhi, 7, 1876
Born in India under the yoke of British colonial rule on October 2, 1869, he grew up in a Hindu family that was devout, sincere, benevolent, non murderous, vegetarian and ascetic. He was shy, shy and disciplined since childhood. At the age of 13, he married an illiterate girl of the same age at the order of his parents.
In 1888, Gandhi did not hesitate to be expelled from his caste status and traveled across the ocean to study in London, where he studied law at University College London. Foreign civilization once made Gandhi have a deep inferiority complex and fall at its feet. The constraints of religious stereotypes made him at a loss in a new environment. After a short period of confusion and exploration, he finally gave up the blind imitation of Western civilization, adhered to the original religious beliefs and absorbed other religious doctrines, received the education of British legal thought, obtained a law degree from University College London, and obtained the qualification of a lawyer.
After returning from his studies, he began to practice law in Mumbai, but suffered setbacks. The first time I filed a lawsuit for someone, I was beaten because of stage fright. After half a year, he returned home and maintained his lawyer business in his hometown of lachcote with the support of his brother, relatives and friends. The lackluster and suffocating environment of his lawyer's business made him feel depressed. When he was asked to deal with a case from an Indian in South Africa, he set foot on the journey to South Africa without hesitation.
Gandhi and his wife (1902)
In South Africa, a British colony where racial discrimination is deep-rooted and pervasive, Gandhi, as a colored person, has suffered a series of discrimination and insults. National pride and the suffering of his compatriots here drove him to lead the struggle against racial discrimination of South African Indians, and he became an eye-catching figure. It was in South Africa, a land full of racial discrimination, that Gandhi denied the Western civilization he once admired, cultivated and exercised his ability to engage in public work, mastered the secret of being a successful lawyer, and basically formed his religion, outlook on life, and social and political outlook. The arduous struggle against racial discrimination he led in South Africa won basic equal rights for South African Indians, from which he also successfully tested an effective weapon - the theory and practice of truth and non violence. However, in this anti discrimination process, Gandhi was still full of illusions about the British Empire.
Gandhi in South Africa in 1895
Gandhi returned to India in 1915. In the first year of his return to China, he traveled all over India by third-class bus to get to know his long departed motherland. A year later, he began to make speeches, publicize his ideas, engage in non violent struggle, and test and develop the theory of non violence. He supported the war that was going on at that time, hoping to exchange this for Britain's grace and give India autonomy. The various actions of the post colonial authorities in World War I turned Gandhi from a loyal follower of the British Empire into a non author.
From March to April 1919, in order to protest the reactionary "lorat act", he launched a national nonviolent resistance movement. Due to the bloody suppression of the colonial authorities and the violent resistance of the masses, Gandhi once announced the suspension of the nonviolent resistance movement and tried to cooperate with the government, but the British government continued to act perversely on the issue of Caliph and Punjab, breaking Gandhi's illusion. Under the situation of the upsurge of the national anti British struggle in India, Gandhi's thought of non cooperation became mature, and he took the lead in launching a mass non violent non cooperation movement against the legislative bodies, courts, schools, titles and foreign goods of the colonial government in the Caliphate movement, which was further promoted as a form of national anti imperialist struggle.
Gandhi in 1909
In September, 1920, the special session of the Congress Party in Kolkata and the annual meeting of Napol in December formally adopted Gandhi's plan of Non Violence and non cooperation and the party platform drafted by Gandhi.
In February, 1922, due to the violence in the movement, Gandhi announced that he would stop the first non violent and non cooperative movement, which demoralized the morale and caused ideological chaos in the National Congress party. Gandhi was also in prison. After his release from prison, Gandhi devoted himself to revitalizing the morale of the people.