Date and Place of Birth : Oct. 2,1869 at Porbandar, Gujarat.
Father Name : Karamachand Gandhi,
Mother Name : Putali Bai,
Political Guru : Gopal Krishna Gokhale,
Private Secretary : Mahadev Desai.
Literary Influences on Gandhi: John Ruskin's Unto This Last, Emerson, Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, the Bible and the Gita.
Literary Works : Hind Swaraj (1909), My Experiments with Truth (Autobiography, 7927)-reveals events of Gandhi's life upto 1922.
Technique of Gandhiji :
Satyagraha- ''Insistence on truth'' , or ''holding onto truth''
Inspired by Thoreau , Emerson and Tolstoy
It Involved –
- Fasting
- Hartal
- Non- cooperation
- Civil Disobedience
Initial Movement-
Champaran Satyagraha -1917
Ahmedabad Mill Strike – 1918
Kheda Satyagraha – 1918
Champaran Satyagraha – 1917
- At Bihar
- Pesants of Indigo were Exploited by Europeans
Ahmedabad mill strike 1918
- Dispute between worker and mill owners
- Asked workers to go on strike to demand 35% increase in wages
Kheda Satyagraha -1918
- In Gujrat
- Vallabhai Patel , Indu Lal , Mohan Lal
- Crop had failed but the govt was insisting or the payment of the revenue
- Later govt took revenue only from those who could pay
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