ppt on mahatma gandhi

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PRESENTATIONON MAHATMAGANDHI
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• TOPIC MAHATMA GANDHI

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CHILDHOOD OF MAHATMA GANDHI
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Gandhi and his childhood
A small, white-washed house in Porbandar, on the
coast of Kathiawad in western India, Mohandas
Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869. His parents
were Karamchand Gandhi and Putlibai. He was small
and dark, and looked no different from the
millions of other children born in India. Yet
this was no ordinary child. He was to fight and
overcome a great empire and, without taking to
arms, set his country free. He was to be called
the Mahatma, the Great Soul. Having led his
people to freedom, he was to lay down his life
for their sake.Porbandar is an old sea-port,
overlooked by the distant Barda Hills. Even in
ancient days ships from far off lands went there
to trade. It was the ancestral home of the
Gandhi's. The grandfather and father of Mohandas
were famous for their ability and for their
upright character.Grandfather Uttamchand Gandhi,
who belonged to a humble family of merchants,
become the Dewan of Porbandar. He was succeeded
by his son, Karamchand Gandhi popularly known as
a Kaba Gandhi. Karamchand had very little formal
education, but his knowledge and experience made
him a good administrator. He was brave and
generous. He had, however, one fault a bad
temper.Putlibai, Karamchand Gandhi's wife, was
deeply religious. Every day she worshipped at the
temple. She was a lovable and strong willed
woman, widely respected for her wisdom and good
sense. People often sought her advice on various
matters.Mohandas was the youngest of the six
children of Kaba Gandhi.
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This feeling was gnawing at his heart and finally
he decided not to touch meat again.Mohandas has
also taken to smoking with Sheik, his brother,
and another relative. He had to pilfer small
amounts of money here and there with which to buy
cigarettes.One day, in order to pay off a debt
which his brother had incurred, Mohandas stole a
piece of gold. Stealing was a great sin. He knew
that he had committed a great crime. He resolved
never in his life to steal again. He wrote down a
confession of his crime and handed the paper to
his ailing father.Karamchand Gandhi read the
confession. He tore up the paper without saying a
word. The bits of paper fell to the floor. He
sank back on his bed with a sigh. Mohandas left
the room, tears streaming down his face.From that
day, Mohandas loved his father more and more.
Everyday he hurried home from school to wait on
him. His father's condition grew worse and at
length he died. The house was filled with
sorrow.Mohandas was only sixteen when his father
died.. He knew that his parents would not forgive
him if they knew he had eaten meat. He was not
against eating meat then, but he was against
telling a lie to his mother. He knew that his
parents would not forgive him if they knew he had
eaten meat. He was not against eating meat then,
but he was against telling a lie to his
mother. He was the favourite child of the family
and was called 'Moniya' by his fond parents and
their friends. Moniya adored his mother. He loved
his father too, but he was a little afraid of
him. There was also at that time a reform
movement for a change in the orthodox ways of
life. Mohandas himself had heard that many
well-to-do people had started eating meat, so he
tried meat. He did not like the taste of meat but
as time went on h e started to like meat
curries.Whenever Mohandas had a meat meal
outside, he had to give his a mother some excuse
for not eating his dinner.
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EARLY LIFE
He was youngest child of his father's fourth
wife. Karamchand Gandhi was his father who was
the dewan chief minister of Porbandar which was
under British suzerainty. Putlibai was his mother
who was very religious lady. His upbringing was
steeped in Vaishnavism (worship of the Hindu god
Vishnu) and strong tinge of Jainism. Thus, he
took for granted ahimsa (no injury to all living
beings), vegetarianism, fasting for
self-purification, and mutual tolerance between
adherents of various creeds and sects. He was
also was deeply influenced by the stories of
Shravana and Harishchandra that reflected the
importance of truth. He received comprehensive
education- attended primary school at Porbandar,
high school at Rajkot and Samaldas College in
Bhavnagar State where he then dropped out because
of his marriage. He was married at the age of 13.
In 1888, he joined the Inner Temple, one of the
four London law colleges (The Temple) where he
successfully completed his degree at the Inner
Temple and was called to the Bar on 10 June 1891.
He enrolled in the High Court of London but
later that year he left for India.
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GANDHI AND HIS LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA
It was in 1893 that M K Gandhi (1869-1948) went
from India to Natal in South Africa as a young
lawyer, not even 24 years of age. He was not yet
45 when he left in July 1914. Except for a few
interludes, mainly in India and England, Gandhi's
stay inin South Africa spanned 21 years. The
widening of Gandhis outlook on racial matters
goes back to his South Africa years and was not
merely a later occurrence as is sometimes
erroneously assumed. After completion of legal
education, Mahatma Gandhi struggled to find work
as a lawyer. In 1893, he get offer from Dada
Abdullah who owned a shipping business in South
Africa to serve as his cousins lawyer in South
Africa. He accepted the offer and went to South
Africa which was turning point in his political
career.During his stay in South Africa, faced
humiliation on many occasion based discrimination
directed towards black and Indian.Incident happen
during rail journey-Gandhi was seated in the
first-class compartment, as he had purchased a
first-class ticket
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. A White person who entered the compartment
hastened to summon the White railway officials,
who ordered Gandhi to remove himself to the van
compartment, since 'coolies' (a racist term for
Indians) and non-whites were not permitted in
first-class compartments. Gandhi protested and
produced his ticket, but was warned that he would
be forcibly removed if he did not make a gracious
exit. As Gandhi refused to comply with the order,
a White police officer pushed him out of the
train, and his luggage was tossed out on to the
platform.This humiliation made him activist to
fight for his rights.Being activist, he developed
the strategy known as Satyagraha (truth-force),
in which campaigners went on peaceful marches and
presented themselves for arrest in protest
against unjust laws. This tool influenced the
civil rights movement in the United States and
the African National Congress in its early years
of struggle against apartheid in South Africa
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10 THINGS GANDHI JI DID IN SOUTH AFRICA
1. He organised non-violent protests against the
racial discrimination directed towards the native
Africans and Indians in 1894. 2. He came to India
for a short time in 1896 to gather fellow Indian
to serve in South Africa. He gathered 800 Indians
but they were welcomed by an irate mob and Gandhi
was injured in the attack.3. He organised the
Indian Ambulance Corps for the British during the
outbreak of the Boer War in 1899. So that British
could understand humanity but the ethnic
discrimination and torture continued on
Indians.4. He set up Phoenix Farm near Durban
where Gandhi trained his cadre for peaceful
restraint or non-violent Satyagraha. This farm
considered as the birthplace of Satyagraha.5. He
also set up another farm which was called Tolstoy
Farm which is considered as the place where
Satyagraha was moulded into a weapon of
protest.6. The first non-violent Satyagraha
campaign of Mahatma Gandhi was organised in
September 1906 to protest against the Transvaal
Asiatic ordinance which was constituted against
the local Indians