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(Mahatma Gandhi)

Anderson Fabián Guzmán Ortiz

Victor Manuel Osorio Gaviria
Daniel Herrera Gomez

Inglés II

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA - SEDE MEDELLÍN

FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS

CENTRO DE IDIOMAS

2019
Mahatma Gandhi
He was really called Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi only that his name was
abbreviated. Born in the place (Porbandar, British India; October 2, 1869. He was
raised in a Hindu merchant caste family and grew up in a place where the life of any
living being and respect constituted a fundamental pillar. Since young, his mother
taught him the value of tolerance and fasting to purify himself, besides, he became a
vegetarian from an early age. At age 11, he joined the High School in Rajkotin
Rajkot. He was a great leader most prominent for the Indian Independence
Movement against the British Raj, for which he had practiced non-violent civil
disobedience, in addition to being a pacifist, politician, thinker and Indian Hindu
lawyer. On September 1888, Gandhi left for London to study law in University
College of London. He returned to India after obtaining his bachelor’s degree to
practice law in his native country. In 1893, a Muslim merchant in Kathiawar named
Dada Abdullah contacted Gandhi and told him of a cousin who needed a lawyer in
South Africa. While in Africa, he became aware of the discrimination faced by Indian
immigrants and was deeply interested in this situation.

From 1919 he belonged openly to the front of the Indian nationalist movement. He
established novel methods of social struggle such as the hunger strike and in his
programs he rejected the armed struggle and carried out a preaching of the ahimsa
(nonviolence) as a means to resist British rule. He had defended and promoted
widely the total fidelity to the dictates of the conscience, even reaching civil
disobedience if necessary; In addition, he fought for the return to the old Hindu
traditions. He had corresponded with León Tolstoy, who had influenced his concept
of nonviolent resistance. He was the inspiration for the march of the salt, a
demonstration across the country against the taxes to which this product was
subject.

Imprisoned on several occasions, he had soon became a national hero. In 1931 he

participated in the London Conference, where he claimed the independence of India.
He had bowed in favor of the right of the Congress party and had conflicts with his
disciple Nehru, who represented the left. In 1942 London sent Richard Stafford
Cripps as an intermediary to negotiate with the nationalists, but as no satisfactory
solution was found, they radicalized their positions. Gandhi and his wife Kasturba
were deprived of their liberty and placed under house arrest in the Aga Khan Palace,
where she died in 1944 while he was making twenty-one days of fasting.