Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British Rule, and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.
Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, western India, Gandhi trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, and was called to the bar at age 22 in June 1891. After two uncertain years in India, where he was unable to start a successful law practice, he moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit. He went on to stay for 21 years. It was in South Africa that Gandhi raised a family, and first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights. In 1915, aged 45, he returned to India. He set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and above all for achieving Swaraj or self-rule.
Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged in the early 1940s by a new Muslim nationalism which was demanding a separate Muslim homeland carved out of India. In August 1947, Britain granted independence, but the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 into an Gujarati Modh Bania family of the Vaishya varna in Porbandar (also known as Sudamapuri), a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula and then part of the small princely state of Porbandar in the Kathiawar Agency of the Indian Empire. His father, Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi (1822–1885), served as the diwan (chief minister) of Porbandar state.Gandhi was one of the most important people involved in the movement for the independence of India. On January 30, 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead by an Hindu activist Nathuram Godse,because Nathuram gose thought that Mahatma Gandhi was too respectful to the Muslims.As a punishment he was hanged to death. Customer Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 4.4 out of 5 stars 451 — 4.6 out of 5 stars 30 4.2 out of 5 stars 7 5.0 out of 5 stars 3 Price ₹103.95₹103.95 ₹74.81₹74.81 ₹51.45₹51.45 ₹79.06₹79.06 ₹82.95₹82.95 ₹156.94₹156.94
As the legend has it, Lord Shiva appeared to sage vasugupta in a dream and instructed him to go to a particular stone near a stream. When sage vasugupta went there the next day, the Stone turned over at his touch, and on its face were inscribed the Shiva sutras. These sutras were to be revealed to those fit for grace as per Lord Shiva instructions. Explaining our true nature and the illusion were living in, the Shiva sutras guides us as to how we can set aside the illusion and experience ultimate reality. The sutras with their transformative message have the power to end our suffering and open up a whole new world for us.
Genre General Brand Fingerprint! Publishing Publication Date 2019-08-01t00:00:01z Item Weight 150.0 Grams Language English
This unusual autobiography "The Story of My Experiments with Truth", is a window to the workings of Mahatma Gandhi's mind- a window to the emotions of his heart, a window to understanding what drove this seemingly ordinary man to the heights of being the father of a nation- India. Starting with his days as a boy, Gandhi takes one through his trials and turmoils and situations that moulded his philosophy of life- going through child marriage, his studies in England, practicing Law in South Africa- and his Satyagraha there- to the early beginnings of the Independence movement in India. He did not aim to write an autobiography but rather share the experience of his various experiments with truth to arrive at what he perceived as Absolute Truth- the ideal of his struggle against racism, violence and colonialism.
Brand Total Kannada Publication Date 2009-01-01t00:00:01z Edition First Edition Item Weight 305.0 Grams Language English
