MOHANDAS GANDHI

“Hunger Strikes”

(1869-1948)
DANIEL FELIPE SANDOVAL SOLANO
20191179049
PREPARACION PARA TOELF
¿WHO IS MOHANDAS GANDHI?

He was a thinker and political lawyer,

born in india, his hunger strikes, him
the nick name MATHAMA GANDHI or
great soul. Was born on 2/10/1869 in
Porbandar, India, his mother taught
him as a child to be a vegetarian,
respect animals and other religions,
married at thirteen years with kasturba
magandhi, study law in england,
Throughout his career, Gandhi staged
a total of 17 hunger strikes. The
GANDHI AND HIS FIRST REBELIONS
• Gandhi began to be a influence in
1893 in the city of South Africa, Natal,
fighting against the laws that
discriminated against the induistas.
• In 1984 he founded the first Indian
party in South Africa to fight for civil
rights that were violating them
• At the age of 36, he practiced celibacy
and in 1907 through his philosophy
based on attachment and devotion to
the truth, a reason that the Indians
protested nonviolently, against the
unjust laws that were imposed on
them.
GANDHI “GREAT SOUL”
• Gandhi's most important actions, such
as hunger strikes to death, made his
partisans give him the name of a great
soul.
• The hunger strikes and their
philosophy were very representative at
the time for many people to support
him
• The most relevant event of Gandhi
was the hunger strike which helped in
the independence of India in 1947, this
indepence successfully ended a
summer of violence and bloodshed in
a cruel civil war between Muslims and
Hindus.
GANDHI AND HIS LAST YEARS
• in 1944 while Gandhi was in prison, his
wife died. Then he suffered from
malaria, forcing him to gather in his
naturist beliefs in order to survive.
• When he was cured of malaria, Gandhi
gained a lot of political power from the
British, so he could suspend the fight
and have more influence between
induistas and Muslims.
• In 1948 he was killed at 78 by a fellow
Hindu militant could not tolerate his
point of view. That Muslims and Hindus
were equal and that no religion was
superior to another.