Wile In India The British example essay topic

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Mohandas Gandhi Gandhi was a great man in a lot of ways he was born on October 2, 1869 in Western India. At the age of thirteen he married Kasturbi who was also thirteen before his father died. When he did his mother sent him to law school in England this was in 1888. While he was there he fell in love so to speak with the nonviolent ways of the Hindu scriptures of the Bhagavad-Gita, and in the bible telling's of Jesus. He later retuned to India in 1891 as a well trained lawyer but he was unsuccessful in starting a law firm so he sought work in South Africa.

He received a job offer for a year and left his wife and children. In south Africa he became a leader in the Indian majorities fight to end discrimination creating the natal Indian congress witch as the Indian voice foe south Africa, he was also in the in the British army during the Boer war as a Indian medical commander. He ended up staying there until 1914 and his wife and children came in 1896. In 1914 he returned as a hero to all Indian people and was considered a holly man, because of this he was often referred to as Mahatma which means great soul. Wile in India the British started to take Indian civil liberties after world war one, hence Gandhi protested fallowing his own nonviolent ways when the Amritsar massacre occurred and both he and India came to the realization that India needed to be a self governed people. Gandhi then took the British apart with Satyagraha (non-violent non-cooperation) and was imprisoned for two years in 1922.

When he got out he took a brake from his political nes and traveled around India working various jobs among the peasants. Then in 1930 he was at it again writing the declaration of independence for India and making salt in protest of the British monopoly on salt. This act of treason inspired many more across the country rendering the British helpless once again forcing them to invite Gandhi to London for meeting on how India's independence would work with a Muslim minority and a Hindu majority. Gandhi was pissed and so he withdrew from public life once again. Just them in 1935 the British gave the Indians a great amount of rights but they were not happy. World war two began just when thing were starting to look good for India and then the war caused a violent uproar.

Gandhi and other leaders were sent to jail again because of a feared uprising. After the war the Brits didn't want India so it was given back to the Indians. But they still could not get along the Muslim leader wanted a separate state for the Muslims Gandhi didn't agree but his vote was over ruled thus the birth of Pakistan so they were separated as independent countries in august or 1947. This is not the end of the story! The two religions, upon crossing each others borders, fought and slaughtered each other. Gandhi, disgraced, tried to stop this civil war but was murdered before he saw the end on January 30, 1948 by a Hindu nationalist in Delhi..