Gandhi

MAHATMA GANDHI 

Mahatma Gandhi, also called "Great Soul", was the leader of the Indian indipendence movement and is considered the spiritual father of  the Indian Nation. Gandhi believe that that non-violence and civil disobedience were the most effective  ways to obtain important  political and social goals. Struck by the condition of immigrant Indian workers in South Africa, where he worked for an Indian firm, he began practising non-vilent resistance and started a movement for civil rights in South Africa.

In 1915 he returned in India where he organized pacific protests against excessive British taxation and discrimination. He was imprisoned many times and began hunger strikes to express his civil disobedience. After becoming  the leader of Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led campaigns to relieve poverty and expand women's rights in India. He also asked people to boycot British products and educational istitutions.

During World War II he intensified his demand for indipendence, asking the British to quit India and he struggled for the unity of  Indian Hindus, Muslims and Christians. On 30th January 1948, a few months after Indian indipendence, Gandhi was assassinated in Delhi by Hindu fanatic nationalist. 

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