Who is mahatma gandhi?

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Who is mahatma gandhi?

Answer 1

he is an indian philosopher

Answer 2

http://www.sportcartoons.co.uk/wallpaper...

There he is in all his glory.  A picture is worth a thousand words.  Just look at the picture and make something up.  It will probably be true.

Answer 3

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi  or "Great Soul", an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore) and in India also as Bapu ("Father"). He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and world-wide as the International Day of Non-Violence.

Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers in protesting excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, for expanding women's rights, for building religious and ethnic amity, for ending untouchability, for increasing economic self-reliance, but above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led Indians in protesting the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (249 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, on numerous occasions, in both South Africa and India.

Gandhi practiced non-violence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn he had hand spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as means of both self-purification and social protest.

Answer 4

Only the most influential passive resistance leader in any continent since Jebus

Answer 5

that skinny guy

Answer 6

HE WAS THE OLD DUDE WHO WAS LIKE ALL PEACFUL MAN HE DIDN'Y DO DRUGS MAN

Answer 7

he made a guest appearance on reading rainbow back in the 90s after writing his novel "lets go eat at the delhi" it was a biography of fine eateries  in india that went out of business in the 50'S

Answer 8

some guy .......?

Answer 9

i don't know why you posted him here when he is a real Indian spiritual leader who was best known for fasting for peace.  

Answer 10

He's a peace maker!

Learned about him my freshman year.

Google his name to learn more information.

Great story really;; saw the movie.

Answer 11

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, better known in the West as Mahatma Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India. He died in 1948.  

Answer 12

I'm not sure but I am familiar with Mahatma Coat

Answer 13

He was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.