Oral anglais, Mahatma Gandhi, l'indépendance de l'Inde

                                  Mahatma gandhi : l'independance de l'inde

 who is mahatma gandhi ?

   Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, from the caste Vayshia was born in India, Porbandar in Gujarat to a family relatively easy. High values ​​in Hinduism, he learns about other religions and tolerance towards them. According to the customs of his caste, he married at the age of 14 years with Kasturbai will remain his wife until his death in 1942.

   Attracted to the western lifestyle, Gandhi went to London in 1888 to study law. This is where he reads the Bhagavad-Gita, the main text of Hinduism which has a great influence on him. After three years in England, he returned to India and has without much success as a lawyer.

what he has done for independence in India?

     In 1925, convinced that independence could not be achieved without a moral transformation and radical social Gandhi launched the campaign "goodwill", a program to fight against social prejudices against manual labor, and "untouchables" which, although itself caste "superior", he identified his whole life. He encouraged the promotion of indigenous languages ​​and the return to manual spinning as a means of livelihood for impoverished populations. Ascetic spirituality loving, rich Indian traditions and modern Western culture, Gandhi then gave Hinduism a shift political and social news, inspired by other civilizations. He improved the method of satyagraha and developed what he called the "new science of non-violence."

      It was morally convert the opponent by a delicate "surgery of the soul." In 1930, the Mahatma (Sanskrit, "great soul"), so called by the poet Rabindranath Tagore, began a new phase in the civil disobedience campaign calling for a boycott of tax on salt in particular, and launching the famous march to the sea thousands of Indians followed Gandhi from Ahmedabad to the Arabian Sea, where they fired salt by evaporating seawater Following this symbolic act of defiance, Gandhi was rearrested. Released in 1931, he did stop the campaign when the British acceded to their demands. In 1932, Gandhi began new civil disobedience campaigns against the British. Two years later, he abandoned his official political action and was replaced at the head of the Congress party by Jawaharlal Nehru. Then he made an extensive tour throughout India, teaching and encouraging social reform. In 1939, he resumed his active political action, the movement fought federation Indian principalities with the rest of India, undertaken by the British, and tried to reconcile the different religious communities in India. Fasting was a weapon conviction efficient Gandhi threatening to starve until death ensues if castiques and religious divisions between Hindus and Muslims did not disappear. During World War II, the Congress party and Gandhi decided not to support Britain unless a full and immediate independence.

   Even after Japan entered the war, Gandhi refused to accept Indian participation. Launching the Quit India slogan ("abandon India"), he was interned in 1942 but was released two years later because of his poor health. The British government accepted the independence in 1944, but provided that the Congress Party and the Muslim League to settle their disputes.

gandhi

 Gandhi is one of those rare people who combine an ideal reference and practice wisdom to a specific political meaning peerless.

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