Indian independence movement

today, he is one of the most influential men to have walked on this earth and is remembered as the father of India due to his success of freeing India from the hands of the British. As a token of his work his birth date is one of the three national Indian holidays and is a day of remembrance and appreciation. Mohandas Gandhi will always be remembered as the savior of…

documentary filmmaker who is determined to make a film on Indian freedom fighters based on diary entries by her grandfather, a former officer of the British Indian Army. Upon arriving in India, she asks a group of five young men to act in her film. Rang De Basanti's release faced stiff resistance from the Indian Defence Ministry and the Animal Welfare Board due to parts that depicted the use of MiG-21 fighter aircraft and a banned Indian horse race. A young, struggling British filmmaker Sue…

meant that Gandhi was fortunate enough to be born into a high caste of Indian society. Gandhi received a thorough education however proved to perform no better than his peers. Following Indian customs, he was betrothed to Kasturba Makhanji through a marriage arranged by their parents, on the May of 1883. Gandhi continued his education at Samaldas College at the University of Mumbai and soon after had the first of…

they wanted to see. For example, the Salt March led by Mohandas Gandhi in March of 1930 was to protest British rule in India. In an act of civil disobedience Gandhi along with thousands of Indians marched almost 240 miles to the town of Dandi, in order to protests the British Salt Acts. These laws prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, and were forced to buy the British’s ridiculous priced salt. Gandhi led his supporters to Dandi, where they scooped up salt from the salt flats of…

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Bapu, as everyone used to call him is known for his strong ideals. Not only did he include them in his individual life, but also turned those very ideals into a mass movement which led a nation to its independence. His movement or Satyagraha was moment for the truth. One of those ideals was that of Ahimsa. While the word “Himsa” would mean violence, Ahimsa would mean non violence. According to Gandhi, the essential element of Ahimsa is truth. It is inseparable from…

on the world in such dissimilar ways. Mahatma Gandhi was a pacifist and a supporter of peace and compassion; Osama Bin Laden was an extreme militant and an advocate for war and intolerance. Gandhi was the primary leader in India’s independence movement. He was a small man that had a great heart, and when people saw this they felt the need to follow his aspirations. Gandhi led thousands of people to their freedom in the earlier part of the 20th century. Gandhi directed the famous…

and the United Kingdom. There were new acts that the government would place, in trying to satisfy the nation, but none of them gave enough power to the people of India. Finally after seventeen years of struggling for their independence, the British signed the Indian Independence Act on August 15,…

In fact, in India, it was the way in which they achieved their independence from one of the world’s most powerful governments in the late 1940s. The pioneering of India’s noncooperation…

recognized Hindu marriages and abolished poll tax for Indians. In 1919, the British authorities enacted the Rowlatt Act which allowed imprisonment “of those suspected of sedition without trial” (Mahatma Gandhi). The Massacre of Amritsar occurred in April 1919 in which British troops killed 400 demonstrators. Gandhi also started the Indian home rule movement for mass boycotts against everything British controlled (Mahatma Gandhi). He was leader of the Indian National Congress, advocating for…

My essay is about Mahatma Gandhi, a truly inspirational person. He was the leader for the civil rights movement, led India to independence, and even inspired others to protest for civil rights and freedom. There are many things that he has done to inspire not just me, but others around the world. But today we’ll focus on his non-violent peaceful protests. Martin Luther King Jr. is famously known for that, but it was Gandhi who had done it before him. His views on life were greatly affected by…