These are essentially two very different principles for Gandhi, yet they are closely intertwined. Gandhi stated that "Satyagraha literally means insistence on truth" (Gandhi 81)
Despite being married, he still led a celibate life and believed on being a vegetarian. All leading newspapers covered him of their front pages as a celebrity, but he maintained high levels of discipline and a simple life (Dalton, 2012)
The greatest of Gandhi's achievement is mobilizing and motivating the citizens of India across the nation regardless of their differences in sex, creed, caste, religion, and language to gather their strengths and fight for the freedom of their country under the India National Congress banner. This participatory management cannot be compared to any other (Flin, O'Connor & Crichton, 2008)
Those who are not charismatic but try to be will spend much of their time trying to add additional strength to their character. Many have their trust sold to charismatic leaders because they know these leaders have their interests at mind (Gandhi & Dalton, 2006)
He believed that he had a significant role to play in attaining freedom of the Indian land. His faith has triggered my faith, as well as the faith of billions of people across the world (Punnett & Shenkar, 2004)
Gandhi, as well as King, had them all -- a sustained energy, deftness and timely ruthlessness in handing and manipulating people, the capacity to think to the purpose and somewhat intuitively, a zest and fluency with ideas, the ability to bounce back constructively when thwarted or criticized, a love of running things as they saw fit and a never-despairing passion for a cause which in their eyes could only be achieved through civil disobedience. Thus, for Gandhi, "non-violence and civil disobedience (was) the most appropriate methods for obtaining political and social goals" (Chew, Internet)
According to Louis Fischer, Mahatmas Gandhi "out-soared immortality as no other human being (and) his social impact upon the world (remains) unequaled" (67). However, in order to fully understand Gandhi's use of civil disobedience, one must ask the question, "What was the secret of his spell upon his country and people?" (Clement 78)
This demonstrates King's understanding on the power of civil disobedience, due to "unjust" being the root reason why non-violent disobedience is necessary in the first place. In his "Letter," King declares that "Its unjust treatment of Negroes in the courts is a notorious reality," a reference to the city of Birmingham, Alabama, "the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States" (Lincoln 156)
Gandhi's method of non-violent action satyagraha translates as the force generated through adherence to the truth. It derived from his ideas of satya and ahimsa, influenced by the Bhagavad Gita and Hindu beliefs, the jain religion and the pacifist Christian teachings of Leo Tolstoy (Gandhi 1993)
He had a deep passion for natural surroundings. In his work, Resistance to Civil Government, Thoreau recommended disobeying unjust laws, saying that men should be men first and subject afterwards and that it was not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law so much as for the right (Thoreau 1849)
In a sense the terminology is a reflection of the idea that all men should be humble to God and acknowledge this through stressing this humbled nature as one that is shared by all men, rather than only by some. (Gandhi 85) Regardless, the lowest caste itself, and those who are proponents of eradicating the caste system altogether have adopted what they consider a less pejorative term, Dalit, meaning the suppressed, to classify themselves and allow a common cultural goal
In a work that is remarkably generalizing though informative Ninian, provides the reader with a very brief overview of how the "caste" system exists in the multicultural areas of India as well as all the regional areas and nations that surround it, though he likens the caste system (as it is practiced by other faiths and cultures) to the influence of India it is also relatively strong proof that castes or classes are an opportunistic aspect of culture, practiced in some areas in very extreme manners but existing in all. (Ninian 186) Can it not be said that the British themselves practice a class system (especially during the colonial era) that subjugated some while venerating others and that this system most notably the aristocratic bias allowed some to succeed while others (often born to it) were forever subjugated by lack of wealth and opportunity? Did the British, and all colonial powers not practice public acts of shaming of those they thought were lesser than themselves? The only difference being that economics altered this reality during a period when the merchant classes had at least a modicum of success in upward mobility somewhat divorcing the system from a priestly class or a born class, which gave the system an only slightly more secular slant as did the fact that the culture had constant strife over the dominant faith (though still Christian) rather than allowing only one faith to dominate the whole of the bureaucratic culture permanently
He also went to the government on their behalf to persuade lawmakers to act in their interests. Gandhi soon became a leader to the masses and although some of his policies were controversial, Gandhi was revered and loved by many of the people of India (Parekh, 1989)
He became successful in uniting Muslims and Hindus of India for attaining the common motive of getting a separate homeland free from the clutches of the British. Gandhi's methods of Satyagraha are depicted through several events and could easily be learned by the people (Bondurant, 1988)
This resulted in putting an end to the Salt Law, which was of great significance to the Indians, as they considered salt to be an important part of their food and diet. His Satyagraha principles were successfully justified through this movement (Fischer, 2002)
Gandhi lived in this Ashram (small farm) to experience a farmer's life. At farm he noticed that a lot of hard work is involved in farming and eventually it is the hard work only that brings success and bounty for others in future (Gandhi, 1990)
From 1917 to 1947, Mahatma Gandhi has been a great leader and has worked to make his dream true. His non-co-operation movements and the famous Salt March are few examples of his life which are significant enough to express his identity (Metcalf and Metcalf, 2006)
Although Nehru did not share Gandhi's taste for spirituality and abstinence, the two men agreed on most matters related to the architecture of the new nation. One of the main differences between Gandhi and Nehru was "Nehru wanted independence immediately whereas Gandhi believed Indians had to be made ready for their own freedom," (Tharoor)
After all, the wealthy and privileged enjoyed many perks on the part of the British presence in India such as the ability to advance economic enterprise. Yet "even in his own privileged life," the young Jawaharlal Nehru "saw that Empire and British rule were a humiliation," (Yergin and Stanislaw)
Mahatma is an adaptation of the Sanskrit word mah?tman, which literally meant "great-souled." As a general, uncapitalized English noun, "mahatma" can refer to any ...