MAHATMA GANDHI AND THE NATIONAL …...MAHATMA GANDHI •Born on 2nd October, 1968 1869 •Porbandar,...
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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