Undeniably, Mahatma Gandhi is one of the well known leaders not only in India but in the whole world, as well. He was born on the 2nd of October in the year 1869, in India. Mahatma Gandhi went to a law school where he studied law and later on became an advocate of the Indians’ rights both in his country and other countries such as South Africa. He became an established leader for the independence movement of India, where he actively organized boycotts against the British Institutions. However, these boycotts were in form of peaceful civil disobedience (Michael, 19). This paper is going to focus on how Mahatma Gandhi led his country India to independence and ways in which he inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world.
Mahatma Gandhi was a famous leader in India. He fought for the Indians’ independence. He used to call himself “a man of God disguised as a politician.” He referred to himself as the man of God as a demonstration for his endurance significance as religious political leader whose ideas offered insight and relief to the people who were after persuasion and practice. Mahatma Gandhi was a strong opponent of communalism; hence, he dwelled on reaching broadly to all the spiritual groups. In the year 1921, he became a Muslim leader, and he protested the deteriorating status of the Caliphate. Later in the same year, Mahatma Gandhi assumed the leadership of a political congress by the name Indian National Congress, where he led campaigns nationwide for reducing poverty, building both religious and ethnic harmony, the expansion of women’s rights and above all, his nationwide campaign aimed at gaining the independence of India from the British realm. In the year 1930, Mahatma Gandhi led the people of India to protest the salt tax cross the nation (Gandhi, and Deshpande, 9). He later on in the year 1942, he led people in demanding their immediate independence from the British during the World War 11. These campaigns protests and other political offenses that he had committed landed Mahatma Gandhi in jail where he was imprisoned along with ten other members of the Indian Nation Congress..
In the year 1947 August, the British partitioned the Indian land. Mahatma Gandhi was unhappy with the partition of India; he worked towards stopping the carnage that existed between the Muslims the Sikhs and the Hindu (Royals, 57). With united religions in India and Hindu having the majority of the Indian members, Mahatma Gandhi got more support than ever. This helped the two partitioned lands, India and Pakistan achieving their own independence on the terms, which Mahatma Gandhi disapproved. This was during his final year before he was murdered in the year 1948.
In conclusion, it is evident that Mahatma Gandhi was a strong political and religious leader, who had a lot of influence on the achievement of the Indian independence. He was born from a Hindu family in October 1869 and died in January 1948. He was an advocate of the Indians’ rights both in his country and other countries such as South Africa. He led many nationwide campaigns against poverty and for women rights, which later on landed him in prison. He however continued to work toward uniting the religions of India, which eventually led to their independence.
Works Cited
Gandhi Mahatrma, and M S. Deshpande. The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi.Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2009. Internet resource.
Nicholson, Michael. Mahatma Gandhi: Leader of Indian Independence. San Diego: Blackbirch Press, 2003. Print.
Royals, Susan D. Our Global Village. St. Louis, MO: Milliken Pub. Co, 1996. Print.
