Gandhi Jyanti at Govt. HSS Sanasar.

Mahatma Gandhi

On 2nd October 1869, Mahatma Gandhi was born in a small coastal town, Porbandar, Gujarat. He did great works all through his life which still has an impact on the people in this modern era. He has worked with great effort to achieve Swaraj, to remove untouchability customs from society, the eradication of other social evils, empowering women’s rights, developing the economic condition of farmers and many more. He ran three movements such as the non-cooperation movement in 1920, Dandi March or Salt Satyagraha in 1930 and the Quit India Movement in 1942 to help people of India get freedom from British rule. His Quit India Movement was a call to the British to leave India.

The true meaning of Civil Disobedience is declining the civil law, especially as a way to disagree for certain demands. Mahatma Gandhi used civil disobedience as a non-violent way to oppose against the British Rule. He started many civil disobedience movements during the British rule protesting against many harsh Acts and Policies of the British government. Civil Disobedience was one of the reasons which led to the independence of India.

In 1916, Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned for organizing the civil defense of tens of thousands of landless farmers and servants in the Champaran district of Bihar, India. Through the Champaran Satyagraha of 1916, Mahatma Gandhi along with the farmers and servants protested the increasing tax (Lagaan) laid on farmers by the Britishers during the destructive scarcity. With his hard determination, Gandhi shocked Britishers in 1930 with his 440 km long walk on foot to the ocean. It was originally to fight the British salt monopoly and lead Indians to defy the British forced salt tax. Dandi Salt March is laid down in history, where around 60,000 people have imprisoned an outcome of the protest march.

Though the story and the extent of India’s struggle for Independence were very long and many people sacrificed their lives during the process. Eventually, India achieved freedom in August 1947. But Independence was accompanied by the horrific Partition. Following the partition and witnessing religious violence on the liberation of India and Pakistan after India’s Independence in 1947, Gandhi began innumerable fasts unto death to eliminate religious violence. Bapu was assassinated on January 30, 1948 (Mahatma Gandhi Death Date), after Nathuram Godse fired at him at the Birla House, New Delhi