Gandhi was considered one of the great sages and prophets. The Indian people called him the “Father of the Nation”. He was a political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha- a philosophy and practice of nonviolent resistance. Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, a small state in western India. His birth name was Mahadmas Karamchad Gandhi, but many years later the Indian people named him Mahatma Gandhi, when they
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Gandhi was a non-violent leader of Indian independence. He worked tirelessly to improve the rights for Indiana immigrants in South Africa. In South Africa is where he learned his passive resistance against injustice. When he returned to India, after being in South Africa, it was not long before he was in the forefront of the struggle for independence from Britain. He protested many of the injustices in British ruled India. His protest of the tax on salt landed him in jail, in 1930. Gandhi
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Indira Gandhi Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi born 19 November 1917 and she died on 31 October 1984) she was the fourth Prime Minister of India and a central figure of the Indian National Congress party. Gandhi, who served from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, is the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of India and the only woman to hold the office. Indira Gandhi was the only child of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. She served as the Chief of Staff of
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Gobierno de Rajiv gandhi Asía pacífico Introducción Rajiv Gandhi fue el sexto Primer Ministro de la India, de 1984 a 1989. Tomó el poder después del asesinato de la Primer Ministra Indira Gandhi, su madre, y se convirtió en el Primer Ministro más joven. Heredero de la poderosa familia de políticos Nehru – Gandhi, su abuelo Jawaharlal Nehru fue Primer ministro durante la mayor parte de la infancia de Rajiv. Para su educación superior, viajó a Gran Bretaña donde conoció y comenzó a slair con
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Born October 2, 1869 Porbandar, Gujarat, British Indian Empire Died January 30, 1948 (aged 78) New Delhi, India Cause of death Shooting Nationality Indian Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Hindi: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी; Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was a leader of nationalism in British-ruled India. He is more commonly called Mahatma Gandhi;[1] mahatma is an honorific meaning "high-souled" or "venerable" in Sanskrit. He was first called this
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Management & Behavior in Global Organizations Research Project Proposal – Leader Indira Gandhi September 19, 2013 Indira Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917 in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. Her parents were Jawaharlal Nehru (first Prime Minister of India) and Kamla Nehru. She learned politics at an early age by being her father’s assistant. Later, she made history by becoming the first woman Prime Minister of India. Today, she is well known around the globe for her accomplishments
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Mahatma Gandhi became one of the pivotal figures, if not the main figure, in India's history in the Twentieth Century. Along with Jinnah and Nehru, Gandhi shaped India's history up to its independence in 1947. Mahatma Gandhi was born in 1869 and he died in 1948. Gandhi was born in Porbander in western India. In 1888, he went to London to study law. He returned to Bombay to work as a barrister but went to South Africa to work in 1907. In South Africa, he took part in passive protests against the
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, born in 1869, was one of the world’s most influential figures. He led many protests that revolutionized the idea of civil disobedience, or non-violent protest. Gandhi rallied thousands to disobey the oppressive and racist British government as an Indian nationalist movement to free India. Under his leadership, the Indian Congress launched a series of mass movements: the Civil Disobedience Movement and the Non Cooperation Movement in 1920s and 1930s. The former was triggered
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of forms. It requires change of heart.” Mahatma Gandhi The real name of Mahatma Gandhi is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He also knew as Father of the Nation, Bapu (Father) and Gandhiji. The word Mahatma (often employed in ordinary journalistic usage without any definite article, as if it were Mohandas Gandhi’s first name) is actually the Sanskrit word for “Great Soul.” Mohandas Gandhi is considered the father of the Indian independence movement. Gandhi spent 20 years in South Africa working to fight
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MAHATMA GANDHI The period from 1920 to 1947 had been described as the Gandhian Era which is golden era in Indian Politics even today. During the period, Gandhi spoke the final word on behalf of the Indian National Congress in negotiating with the British Government for constitutional reforms, and for chalking out a program for the national movement. Mahatma Gandhi was, and still is, an inspirational leader who impacts the world and as well as a political and spiritual leader of India. Also still
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