THIS IS ABOUT MAHATMA GANDHI'S LIFE AND WORKS!!!

1. Mahatma Gandhi
HIS LIFE,HIS WORKS,HIS END
A project made by the students :
Vasilina Dasteridi & Panagiota Tsoukala
Angelina Hangini & Markella Tasiana

2. Timeline

October 2 1869
Birth in Porbandar
1876-1891
His life passing
with the family
1891-1948
His travels -
Fighting for truth
and fair
30 January 1948
His death in
new Delhi

3. Introduction
 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2,
1869 – January 30, 1948) popularly known as
‘Mahatma Gandhi’ or better still as ‘Father of
the Nation’ was one of the most charismatic
leaders who fought for the freedom of the
country withahimsa (non-violence)
and satyagraha (way of truth) as his only
weapons. Gandhi influenced both nationalist
and internationalist movements and brought
the cause of India's independence from
British colonial rule to world attention

4. Gandhi's philosophy
 Gandhi's philosophy and his ideologies of satya (truth)
and ahimsa (non-violence) were influenced by the Bhagavad Gita and
Hindu beliefs, the Jain religion and the pacifist Christian teachings of
Leo Tolstoy. The concept of ‘ahimsa’ (non-violence) has a long history
in Indian religious thought and has had many revivals in Hindu,
Buddhist and Jain contexts. Gandhi explains his philosophy and way of
life in his autobiography ‘The Story of my Experiments with Truth’.
 Although he experimented with eating meat upon first leaving India, he
later became a strict vegetarian. He wrote books on the subject while
in London, having met vegetarian campaigner Henry Salt at gatherings
of the Vegetarian Society. The idea of vegetarianism is deeply
ingrained in Hindu and Jain traditions in India, and, in his
native land of Gujarat, most Hindus were vegetarian. He experimented
with various diets and concluded that a vegetarian diet should be
enough to satisfy the minimum requirements of the body. He abstained
from eating for long periods, using fasting as a political weapon.

5. Ideologies

6. The Crossroads
 In 1893, Gandhi went to South Africa to handle a
case. But though his legal work was soon over, he
stayed on for 21 years, fighting against racial
discrimination and for the rights of the Indian
Community. South Africa was the turning point of his
life, where his perfectly normal life ceased to exist
and he became a human rights activist, ever so
staunch in his belief of achieving independence
through ahimsa (non-violence).
 Service in hour of need
During the Boer war and the Zulu rebellion he helped
the British Raj at the hour of its need, by raising
Indian Ambulance and Stretcher-barer Corps which
served close to the line of fire. Gandhi was awarded
medals for this service.

7. Hero’s welcome
 The man in South Africa,
had striven valiantly, through
satyagraha, for his peoples'
honour and human dignity,
received Hero’s welcome
anywhere. He traveled
widely north and south,
mostly by third class of the
railways. Visiting
Shantiniketan to meet
Gurudev—Rabindranath –
Tagore – was like going on a
pilgrimage.

8. His end
 The Last Journey
They carried him through a
million-strong crowd of weeping
men, women and children. To
all of them he was Bapu, father,
in an almost personal way. He
had so long dominated the
country's landscape and life that
he was part of it, and it was
impossible to think of them
without his uplifting, elevating
benevolent presence. To the
world at large India was always
the land of Gandhi.He was
assassinated on 30 January
1948 in new Delhi.

9. How he changed the world…
 He led India's independence movement in the 1930s and 40s by speaking softly
without carrying much of a big stick, facing down the British colonialists with
stirring speeches and non-violent protest. For his troubles, he's often named
among the 20th century's most important figures and remains revered in India as
a father of the nation. More than anything else, historians say, Gandhi proved
that one man has the power to take on an empire, using both ethics and
intelligence. Other peaceful resisters such as Martin Luther King Jr. during the
1960s civil rights movement and Tibet's Dalai Lama have emulated his methods
in years since, shaking up the dynamic of world politics in the process.

10. How he changed the world…
 He led India's independence movement in the 1930s and 40s by speaking softly
without carrying much of a big stick, facing down the British colonialists with
stirring speeches and non-violent protest. For his troubles, he's often named
among the 20th century's most important figures and remains revered in India as
a father of the nation. More than anything else, historians say, Gandhi proved
that one man has the power to take on an empire, using both ethics and
intelligence. Other peaceful resisters such as Martin Luther King Jr. during the
1960s civil rights movement and Tibet's Dalai Lama have emulated his methods
in years since, shaking up the dynamic of world politics in the process.