MAHATMA GANDHI AND THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT

MAHATMA GANDHI

• Born on 2nd October, 1968

• Porbandar, Gujarat1869

• lawyer in South Africa

• Was a target fro humiliating treatment1893-1914

• Launched the first Satyagraha campaign on a large scale against the British Government in South Africa for the rights of Indians there1906

MAHATMA GANDHI – A TIMELINE OF HIS CAMPAIGNS IN NATIONAL MOVEMENT

• Launched various Satyagrahas1917-1919

• Non-cooperation Movement1920

• Civil Disobedience Movement1930 - 1932• Many individual movements

• Quit India Movements1940 1942

• Shimla Conference1945

• Worst communal situations1946

• India became independent 1947

• Gandhi assassinated 1948

THE GANDHIAN PATH

Satyagraha

The force born of truth

Fasting, Non-cooperation, civil disobedience of

state laws

Non-violence

Ahimsa

Non-violence of the strong and

not of the weak

Swadewshi

‘Use things produced by our

countrymen’

Social Justice

Concern for the oppressed

Liberation of women

Treating the untouchables

equally – calling them ‘Harijans’

CAUSES WHICH LED TO THE NON-COOPERATION MOVEMENT