A visual presentation about this Nobel Prize winner.

1. Mahatma Gandhi

2. 1869-1948
• He was a thinker and leader of Indian nationalism. He is the
most important indigenous personality of contemporary
Indian history. He dominated the political and social scene in
India during the first half of the twentieth century. He left a
valuable legacy for the good of his countrymen and
independence of their country as part of an extraordinary
philanthropic and humanitarian conception.

3. • Since 1918 he belonged openly to the Indian
nationalist movement. It introduced innovative
methods of social struggle as the hunger strike, and
its programs rejected armed struggle and was on a
preaching of ahimsa (non-violence) as a means to
resist British rule.
• He defended and promoted widely total fidelity to the
dictates of conscience, even to civil disobedience if
necessary; moreover, he struggled for a return to the
old Hindu traditions. He corresponded with Leon
Tolstoy, who influenced his concept of nonviolent
resistance. He was the inspiration behind the salt
march, a rally across the country against the taxes to
which this product was subject.

4. • Imprisoned several times, he soon became a national
hero. In 1931 he participated in the London
Conference, where he claimed the independence of
India. He leaned in favour of the right of the Congress
party, and had conflicts with his disciple Nehru,
representing the left. In 1942, London sent Richard
Stafford Cripps as an intermediary to negotiate with
the nationalists, but they did not find a satisfactory
solution, because 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 performed
twenty-one days fasting.

5. • Having gained independence, Gandhi tried to reform
the Indian society, starting by integrating the lower
castes (Sudras or the 'slaves', the pariahs or
untouchables and mlechas or 'barbarians'), and
develop rural areas . He disapproved of the religious
conflicts that followed the independence of India,
defending Muslims in Indian Territory, being killed by
Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic integration, on 30
January 1948 at the age of 78 years. His ashes were
thrown into the Ganges River.

6. Gandhi and his wife Kasturba in 1902.
• Occupation: Lawyer, politician, activist
• Central figure known for Indian independence
movement and advocate for active nonviolence
• Indian National Congress political party
• Religious beliefs Hinduism

7. Inspiration
• Durante sus años en Sudáfrica, Gandhi se inspiró en la Bhagavad-
Guita y los libros de Tolstoi, particularmente en el Reino de Dios
está dentro de ti. En la década de 1880 Tolstoi estaba
profundamente convertido a la causa del anarquismo cristiano.
Gandhi tradujo otro libro de Tolstoi llamado Carta a un escrito de
la India en 1908, en respuesta a los nacionalistas indios que
apoyaban la violencia. Gandhi permaneció en contacto con
Tolstoi hasta su muerte en 1910.4
• La carta de Tolstoi se basa en las doctrinas hindúes y enseñanzas
del dios Krishna en relación con el creciente nacionalismo indio.
Gandhi también se inspiró en el escritor y anarquista Henry David
Thoreau que escribió el famoso ensayo Desobediencia Civil. El
propio Gandhi, en parte, se ha convertido en un representante
de referencia del anarquismo pacifista.

8. Murder and his last words
• The January 30, 1948, when Gandhi was addressing a prayer
meeting, was assassinated in Birla Bhavan (Birla House) in New
Delhi, at 78 years old by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu radical
apparently related to far-right groups India, as was the Hindu party
Hahasabha, who accused him of weakening the new government
with his insistence that he was paid the promised money to
Pakistan.
• Godse and his accomplice Narayan Apte were tried and sentenced
to death. His execution took place on 15 November 1949. However,
it is considered as the instigator of the murder, the party chairman
Hahasabha, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, was freed without charge
for lack of evidence.
• A test of the struggle of Gandhi and his search for God is in his last
words before he died he said, "Hey, Rama!". This is interpreted as a
sign of spirituality and idealism in the search for peace in their
country. These words are written on the monument erected in his
honor in New Delhi.

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Gandhi's life:
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Gandhi.
►Month in which he was born.
►Country where he was born.
►Manner of death.
►Meaning of his death.

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