Mk gandhi biography pdf

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Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Texts Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Inat the age of 18, Gandhi Ji graduated from a high school in Ahmedabad.

He later enrolled at a college in Bhavnagar but dropped out later. He had also joined and eventually dropped out of a college in Bombay. He then went to London in to pursue law at the university college. After completing his studies, he was invited to be enrolled at Inner temple to become a barrister. Inhe moved to Durban, South Africa, on a one-year contract to sort out the legal problems of Abdullah, a Gujarati merchant.

The British had colonized and settled in the Natal and Cape provinces of South Africa during the s and 50s. Boer means farmer settler in Dutch and Afrikaans. The governance of colonial regions Natal and Cape was controlled by the minority white population which enforced segregation between government-defined races in all spheres. Indian immigration to South Africa began in the s, when whites recruited indentured Indian labour Girmityasespecially from south India, to work on sugar plantations.

Later many Indian merchants, mostly meman Muslims also migrated. By the s, the children of the ex-indentured labourers had settled down in South Africa making up the third group. His journey from Durban to Pretoria witnessed the famous incident when he was thrown out of a first-class compartment by a white man at Pietermaritzburg station. Upon arriving at Johanessburg, he was refused rooms in the hotels.

These experiences motivated him to stay in South Africa for a longer period to organize the Indian workers to enable them to fight for their rights. He started teaching English to the Asian population there and tried to organize them to protest against the oppression. He founded the Natal Indian Congress and moulded the Indian community into a unified political force.

During this time, Gandhi volunteered to form a group of stretcher-bearers as the Natal Indian ambulance corps. It consisted of indentured labourers and was funded by the Indian community and helped mk gandhi biography pdf and evacuation of wounded British soldiers. Gandhi Ji thought that helping the British war efforts would win over the British imperial government and earn sympathy for the plight of Indians there.

Tillit was the moderate phase of the struggle for the Indians in South Africa. During this time, Gandhi concentrated on petitioning and sending memorials to the legislatures, the colonial secretary in London, and the British parliament. The failure of moderate methods led to the second phase of the struggle, civil disobedience or the Satyagraha.

He started two settlements- the Phoenix settlement in Durban and the Tolstoy farm in Johanessburg for helping the needy and initiate a communal living tradition. His first notable resistance was against the law passed by the government, making it compulsory for Indians to take out certifications of registrations that held their fingerprints and was compulsory to carry it on the person at all times.

Mk gandhi biography pdf

Gandhi formed a Passive Resistance Association against this. Gandhi and his followers were jailed. Later the government agreed to withdraw the law if Indians voluntarily registered. They were tricked into the registrations and they protested again by publicly burning their certificates. Gandhi and others were jailed and sentenced to hard physical labour.

Gokhale and Gandhi met at Durban and established a good relationship. The movement against the law invalidating marriages not conducted according to Christian rites brought out many Indian women onto the movement. Gandhi launched a final mass movement of over men, women, and children.