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Honest disagreement is often a sign of progress, you must be the change you wish to see in the world, where there is love there is life, an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

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210 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Inspirational Quotes at BrainyQuote

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Enjoy the best Mahatma Gandhi Quotes at BrainyQuote. Quotations by Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader, Born October 2, 1869. Share with your friends.

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What American leader adopted Gandhi's method of protest?

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What American leader adopted Gandhi's method of protest?

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The american leader that adopted Gandhi's method of protest is Martin Luther King Jr.

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Why did New Yorkers protest the draft?

New Yorkthey didnt protest it i don't know what you are talking about the only one who protested it was the french sailor Samuel de Lafayette, he sailed the Lafayette river in Boston and was the one to discover it... he was the french leader for the American revealutions militia, basically

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What American leader adopted Gandhi's method of protest? - Answers

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I had a Social Studies project about Gandhi, and this question was a part of it. After much searching and discussion, I finally found a site that proved, in its words of course, that Martin Luther King Jr. used Gandhi's methods of protests.

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Based on your research what did Gandhi accomplish? How did he contribute to history?

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Based on your research what did Gandhi accomplish? How did he contribute to history?

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He accomplished independence from british rule and the rights of the Indian poor. He contributed to history by gaining independence in India so they can have freedom

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Presented by Prof David Hardiman Historian

Great Soul

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is known as Mahatma meaning 'Great Soul'. He was an astute political campaigner who fought for Indian independence from British rule and for the rights of the Indian poor.

His example of non-violent protest is still revered throughout the world today. Find out how this man of peace and representative of India's poor came from a privileged background and spent his teenage years as a rebel.

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Gandhi: Reckless teenager to father of India

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Presented by Prof David Hardiman Historian Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is known as Mahatma meaning 'Great Soul'. He was an astute political campaigner who fought for Indian independence from British rule and for the rights of the Indian poor. His example of non-violent protest is still revered throughout the world today.

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What did Gandhi hope to see in the future?

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What did Gandhi hope to see in the future?

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His vision for India’s future
was highly unorthodox. In Gandhi’s idealized state, there would be no representative
government, no constitution, no army or police force; there
would be no industrialization, no machines and certainly no modern cities

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How did Gandhi and nationalism lead to independence in India?

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How did Gandhi and nationalism lead to independence in India?

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Gandhi persuaded the Indian National Congress to use nonviolent protests such as boycotting British goods and refusing to pay taxes. The U. K. granted India independence

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How did nationalism lead to independence in India & Vietnam???

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India nationalism led to independence Located in Asia European colonies achieved independence from European countries France Ho Chi Minh With the aid of China, Ho Chi Minh organized a communist nationalist movement to fight a war against the French.

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patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts. loyalty and devotion to a nation

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between nationalism and patriotism?

Nationalism and patriotism are similar insofar as both words emphasize strong feelings for one's country. However, the two words are not synonymous. Nationalism, while it refers to loyalty and devotion to a nation, tends to imply the placing of that nation above others, a tendency that is not necessarily implicit in patriotism.

Is nationalism a proper noun?

Proper noun is defined as "a noun that designates a particular being or thing, does not take a limiting modifier, and is usually capitalized in English." Nationalism does not meet these criteria, and therefore is not a proper noun.

What is difference between nationalism and jingoism?

Nationalism and are closely related, as both words refer to an exaltation of one's own nation and feelings of cultural superiority. However, jingoism, unlike nationalism, always implies military aggressiveness.

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The war was caused by Nazism's almost epic nationalism and greed. nationalism appealed to downtrodden Germans still suffering the humiliation of being defeated in World War I.

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1798, in the meaning defined at sense 1

The first known use of nationalism was in 1798

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loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially : a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups... See the full definition

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Gandhi proved that one man has the power to take on an empire, using both ethics and intelligence

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Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history being made today.

He wasn't the first, nor would he be the last, but the wiry, bespectacled man from Gujarat is certainly the most famous of the world's peaceful political dissidents.

Mohandas Gandhi - also affectionately known as Mahatma - led India's independence movement in the 1930s and 40s by speaking softly without carrying much of a big stick, facing down the British colonialists with stirring speeches and non-violent protest. For his troubles, he's often named among the 20th century's most important figures and remains revered in India as a father of the nation.

More than anything else, historians say, Gandhi proved that one man has the power to take on an empire, using both ethics and intelligence. Other peaceful resisters such as Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s civil rights movement and Tibet's Dalai Lama have emulated his methods in years since, shaking up the dynamic of world politics in the process.

Urges Britain to quit India

It is hard to imagine the thin, robed Gandhi working in the rough and tumble world of law, but Gandhi did get his start in politics as a lawyer in South Africa, where he supported the local Indian community's struggle for civil rights. Returning to India in 1915, he carried over his desire to improve the station of the lower classes.

Gandhi quickly became a leader within the Indian National Congress, a growing political party supporting independence, and traveled widely with the party to learn about the local struggles of various Indian communities.

It was during those travels that his legend grew among the Indian people, historians say.

Finding extreme poverty and famine in his own Gujarat province, Gandhi led an initiative to clean up the area, install new schools and build hospitals. He was ultimately arrested by British-appointed landlords for causing unrest, but talked his way out of jail and negotiated better conditions for the Indian farmers. When news about this sneaky feat spread through India, he earned the nickname "Bapu" - or Father.

Indeed, Gandhi was known as much for his wit and intelligence as for his piety. When he was arrested several more times over the years for his actions during the movement, Gandhi calmly fasted in prison, believing that his death would embarrass the British enough to spur independence, which had become the focus of his politics by 1920.

Gandhi's non-cooperation movement, kicked off in the early 1920s, called for Indians to boycott British goods and traditions and become self-reliant. His most famous protest came in 1930, when Gandhi led thousands of Indians on a 250-mile march to a coastal town to produce salt, on which the British had a monopoly.

Inspires civil rights

India finally gained full independence in 1947 when Gandhi was 78. Although some historians argue that independence was inevitable with Britain's economic collapse after World War II, most agree that it would not have happened without the foundation of dissent he built among several hundred million Indians throughout the 1920s and 30s.

Ironically, the ultimate proponent of non-violence was killed by assassination in 1948 while walking to his evening prayer meeting.

Today, Indians, anti-war protestors and authors, for the many interesting quotes he provided, celebrate Gandhi as a preeminent figure. Not 20 years after his death, Gandhi also had a direct impact on the history of the United States.

Martin Luther King Jr. is said to be have been heavily influenced by Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence, believing it to be the only logical approach to the problem of race relations in America.

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Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history being made today. He wasn't the first, nor would he be the last, but the wiry, bespectacled man from Gujarat is certainly the most famous of the world's peaceful political dissidents.

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What was unique about Gandhi's methods of protest?

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What was unique about Gandhi's methods of protest?

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The unique method of Gandhi's protest is that he traveled 241 miles to disobey the salt laws that were made by the British

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On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India.

Britain's Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple in the Indian diet. Citizens were forced to buy the vital mineral from the British, who, in addition to exercising a monopoly over the manufacture and sale of salt, also exerted a heavy salt tax. Although India's poor suffered most under the tax, Indians required salt. Defying the Salt Acts, Gandhi reasoned, would be an ingeniously simple way for many Indians to break a British law nonviolently. He declared resistance to British salt policies to be the unifying theme for his new campaign of satyagraha, or mass civil disobedience.

On March 12, Gandhi set out from Sabarmati with 78 followers on a 241-mile march to the coastal town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea. There, Gandhi and his supporters were to defy British policy by making salt from seawater. All along the way, Gandhi addressed large crowds, and with each passing day an increasing number of people joined the salt satyagraha. By the time they reached Dandi on April 5, Gandhi was at the head of a crowd of tens of thousands. Gandhi spoke and led prayers and early the next morning walked down to the sea to make salt.

He had planned to work the salt flats on the beach, encrusted with crystallized sea salt at every high tide, but the police had forestalled him by crushing the salt deposits into the mud. Nevertheless, Gandhi reached down and picked up a small lump of natural salt out of the mud-and British law had been defied. At Dandi, thousands more followed his lead, and in the coastal cities of Bombay and Karachi, Indian nationalists led crowds of citizens in making salt. Civil disobedience broke out all across India, soon involving millions of Indians, and British authorities arrested more than 60,000 people. Gandhi himself was arrested on May 5, but the satyagraha continued without him.

On May 21, the poet Sarojini Naidu led 2,500 marchers on the Dharasana Salt Works, some 150 miles north of Bombay. Several hundred British-led Indian policemen met them and viciously beat the peaceful demonstrators. The incident, recorded by American journalist Webb Miller, prompted an international outcry against British policy in India.

In January 1931, Gandhi was released from prison. He later met with Lord Irwin, the viceroy of India, and agreed to call off the satyagraha in exchange for an equal negotiating role at a London conference on India's future. In August, Gandhi traveled to the conference as the sole representative of the nationalist Indian National Congress. The meeting was a disappointment, but British leaders had acknowledged him as a force they could not suppress or ignore.

India's independence was finally granted in August 1947. Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu extremist less than six months later.

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Gandhi leads civil disobedience - Mar 12, 1930 - HISTORY.com

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On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India. Britain's Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple in the Indian diet.

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Gandhi was protesting about civil disobedience, the protest went on for 7 years

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In an event that would have dramatic repercussions for the people of India, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a young Indian lawyer working in South Africa, refuses to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train and is forcibly ejected at Pietermaritzburg.

Born in India and educated in England, Gandhi traveled to South Africa in early 1893 to practice law under a one-year contract. Settling in Natal, he was subjected to racism and South African laws that restricted the rights of Indian laborers. Gandhi later recalled one such incident, in which he was removed from a first-class railway compartment and thrown off a train, as his moment of truth. From thereon, he decided to fight injustice and defend his rights as an Indian and a man.
READ MORE: 6 Things You Might Not Know About Gandhi
When his contract expired, he spontaneously decided to remain in South Africa and launch a campaign against legislation that would deprive Indians of the right to vote. He formed the Natal Indian Congress and drew international attention to the plight of Indians in South Africa. In 1906, the Transvaal government sought to further restrict the rights of Indians, and Gandhi organized his first campaign of satyagraha, or mass civil disobedience. After seven years of protest, he negotiated a compromise agreement with the South African government.

In 1914, Gandhi returned to India and lived a life of abstinence and spirituality on the periphery of Indian politics. He supported Britain in the First World War but in 1919 launched a new satyagraha in protest of Britain's mandatory military draft of Indians. Hundreds of thousands answered his call to protest, and by 1920 he was leader of the Indian movement for independence. Always nonviolent, he asserted the unity of all people under one God and preached Christian and Muslim ethics along with his Hindu teachings. The British authorities jailed him several times, but his following was so great that he was always released.

After World War II, he was a leading figure in the negotiations that led to Indian independence in 1947. Although hailing the granting of Indian independence as the "noblest act of the British nation," he was distressed by the religious partition of the former Mogul Empire into India and Pakistan. When violence broke out between Hindus and Muslims in India in 1947, he resorted to fasts and visits to the troubled areas in an effort to end India's religious strife. On January 30, 1948, he was on one such prayer vigil in New Delhi when he was fatally shot by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist who objected to Gandhi's tolerance for the Muslims.

Known as Mahatma, or "the great soul," during his lifetime, Gandhi's persuasive methods of civil disobedience influenced leaders of civil rights movements around the world, especially Martin Luther King, Jr., in the United States.

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Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience

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In an event that would have dramatic repercussions for the people of India, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a young Indian lawyer working in South Africa, refuses to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train and is forcibly ejected at Pietermaritzburg.

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Explain what happened at the Temple of Amritsar

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Explain what happened at the Temple of Amritsar

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On June 6, 1984 the Golden Temple of Amritsar was raided by Indian troops

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1984: Troops raid Golden Temple in Amritsar
Nearly 300 people have been killed as Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar, held by Sikh militants.
The army's attack was resisted with heavy firepower, and weapons captured included machine guns, anti-tank missiles and rocket launchers.

Reports say 250 dissidents and 48 Indian troops died in the battle, which has raged for two days. Up to 450 Sikhs were captured.

The storming of the temple, or Operation Bluestar, followed weeks of growing tension between the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Sikhs in the northern state of Punjab, who believe they are being discriminated against by the Hindu majority.

Gandhi first moved forces in to surround the temple in early March, after a long occupation by Sikh extremists led by Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

The religious risks of storming the shrine led to a tense stand-off and it appears security forces were hoping the militants would surrender, making a direct attack unnecessary.

In April the government agreed to amend the constitution to enshrine the independence of the Sikh religion.

But while the move was welcomed by the moderate Sikh party Akali Dal, the radical elements in control of the temple were unimpressed.

Speculation of an attack on the Sikh shrine increased following the government's decision on 3 June to impose a 36-hour curfew across Punjab.

Forces have now cleared the outer buildings of the complex but a group of heavily-armed Sikhs - including Bhindranwale - are believed to remain in hiding in the basement of a second building, close to the Golden Temple.

The government said at midnight that all active resistance had stopped, adding that the army's next task would be to "eliminate completely terrorists from the state".

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BBC ON THIS DAY | 6 | 1984: Troops raid Golden Temple in Amritsar

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1984: Troops raid Golden Temple in Amritsar Nearly 300 people have been killed as Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar, held by Sikh militants. The army's attack was resisted with heavy firepower, and weapons captured included machine guns, anti-tank missiles and rocket launchers.

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Gandhi strongly believed in nonviolence, meditation, fasting, and vegetarianism

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Gandhi practiced the religion of Ahisma. He grew up worshiping the Hindu god Vishnu and following Jainism

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Gandhi was a shy, remarkable, young boy that wanted to be a doctor but his father wanted him to be a government minister

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When and where was he born, and when and where did he die?

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When and where was he born, and when and where did he die?

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Mohandas was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar India and died on January 30, 1948 in a Birla House in New Delhi where he was assassinated

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Mohandas Gandhi was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.