Born Into A Merchant Family In 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Was

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Term Paper Title	Born Into A Merchant Family In 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Was
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  Born into a merchant family in 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was

  under the influence of powerful people. Members of his family had served as

  prime ministers of an Indian state for several generations. His parents

  were strong in their religion, being devout and earnest Hindus. They were a

  part of a Hindu sect that worshipped Vishnu and promoted non-violence.



  Apparently, he was most influenced by his mother, a gentle and

  intelligent person. According to Hindu custom, he married at an early age

  and grew to love his wife greatly. Together, they had four children and

  adopted a fourth.



  Later, in 1888, he travelled to England to become a barrister-at-law.

  There were several important influences that he encountered here: the

  Western material style of life, which he decided not to follow, and in the

  simple Russian way of living he found: the New Testament, and the

  Bhagavadgita, the bible of the Hare Krishna movement. It was here that he

  developed a sense of the presence of God in his life and the lives of men.



  Gandhi then returned to India and studied law in Bombay, but he

  quickly denounced it, feeling that it was immoral and could not satisfy

  one's conscience. Despite this, he used his schooling to help plead for

  Indian settlers in South Africa that were being oppressed by the white

  population. His personal experiences, including being ejected from a train

  in Maritzburg, of not being allowed the same rights as others lead him to

  begin a movement to help his people.



  While in South Africa, Gandhi made himself poor so that he could

  identify with his the peasants. He then proceeded to start a colony that

  consisted of abused labourers. The colony became very large and many cities

  were crippled by the lack of labourers. The government reacted to this by

  jailing Gandhi several times along with many other of his followers. The

  war he fought was one without weapons, already Gandhi was on his way to

  starting his career of non-violent campaigns.



  The main idea behind Gandhi's teachings was non-violence. The words of

  the Sanskrit language: ahinsa and sayagraha clearly express Gandhi's

  beliefs. The former means non-killing, non-destructive and the latter means

  the force of universal truth. He believed that the killing of man or beast

  is an unforgivable sin. Many who promoted these teachings of Gandhi simply

  believed that it was their only op...

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