Mahatma Gandhi’s principle of non-violence was set down on the rule that no injury ought to be caused either by words or by activity.
Gandhi believed that peacefulness is a positive and dynamic power. He focused on the use of the charkha and khadi.
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- Mahatma Gandhi was born at Porbandar in the Kathiawar district of Gujarat in 1869.
- Mahatma Gandhi went to England to study Law in 1888 and practised law in South Africa, from 1893 to 1914.
- In South Africa, Gandhi saw racial discrimination and soon turned into the leader of a struggle against racist authorities in the country.
- Mahatma Gandhi shaped the Natal Indian Congress to fight against the racist policies of the South African government.
- Mahatma Gandhi got back to India in January 1915 and made a broad visit through the country in the following three years.
- In 1917 and 1918, Gandhi was engaged in three critical struggles in Champaran (Bihar), Ahmedabad and Kheda in Gujarat.
- Congress launched the Non-Cooperation Movement but Mahatma Gandhi suspended the movement because of the incident which happened at Chauri Chaura in Uttar Pradesh.
- The Civil Disobedience Movement began with Mahatma Gandhi with the Dandi March.
- Mahatma Gandhi’s principle of non-violence was set down on the rule that no injury ought to be caused either by words or by activity.
- On 30 January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Vinayak Godse while walking to his prayer meeting on the lawn of the Birla House compound in Delhi.