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Welcome to Facebook - Log In, Sign Up or Learn More. Mahatma Gandhi Short Biography. Gandhiji- Father of the Nation. S Potpourri: Gandhiji and Status of Women in India. Gandhi and Status of Women by Jyotsna Kamat Page Last Updated: February 09, 2014 Article on how Mahatma Gandhi's experiments with truth involved and affected women's status in the 20th century in India.

s Potpourri: Gandhiji and Status of Women in India

Excerpts from a lecture given at the Gandhi Peace Foundation in December 1998 Women's status at the time When Gandhiji assumed India's leadership the average life span of an Indian woman was only twenty seven years. It is in this context that we have to recognize the miracle of Gandhi's work. Woman and Progress Gandhiji always advocated a complete reform which he called "Sarvodaya" meaning comprehensive progress. Gandhiji declared that there is no school better than home and there is no teacher better than parents.

Indian society is a male dominated one. Woman and Social Service Gandhiji struggled very hard to understand a woman's physical and mental pain. Role of Women Child Widows Gandhiji was especially considerate of the young widows. Temple women and Prostitutes Legacy See Also: Links: INSPIRING STORIES FROM GANDHIJI'S LIFE. - Uma Shankar Joshi(For all ages) The night was very dark and Mohan was frightened.

INSPIRING STORIES FROM GANDHIJI'S LIFE

He had always been afraid of ghosts. Whenever he was alone in the dark, he was afraid that a ghost lurking in some dark corner would suddenly spring on him. And tonight it was so dark that one could barely see one's own hand. Mohan had to go from one room to another. "I am frightened, Dai," Mohan answered. Mohan was very shy. In South Africa Gandhiji set up an ashram at Phoenix, where he started a school for children. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi pronunciation (pronounced: [ˈmoːɦənd̪aːs ˈkərəmtʃənd̪ ˈɡaːnd̪ʱi] ; 2 October 1869 [ 1 ] – 30 January 1948), commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi , was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India .

Employing non-violent civil disobedience , Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised in a Hindu community in coastal Gujarat , and trained in law in London. Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa, using new techniques of non-violent civil disobedience that he developed. Returning to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants to protest excessive land-taxes. In his last year, unhappy at the partition of India , Gandhi worked to stop the carnage between Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs that raged in the border area between India and Pakistan.

Indian National Congress. The Indian National Congress ( pronunciation abbreviated INC, and commonly known as the Congress) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Indian National Congress

It is the largest and one of the oldest democratically-operating political parties in the world.[5][6][7] The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered to be on the centre-left of the Indian political spectrum. The Organisation was founded in 1885 by Allan Octavian Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Wacha, Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, Surendranath Banerjee, Monomohun Ghose, Mahadev Govind Ranade and William Wedderburn. Hume was also a prominent member of the Theosophical Society. In the most recent general elections in 2009, the Congress emerged as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha, with 206 of its candidates getting elected to the 543-member house. History The history of the Indian National Congress falls into two distinct eras: Pre-independence A.O. Post-independence. Civil Unrest in the 1960s: Riots and ...

Mahatma Gandhi Album - The Dandi March of 1930. Mahatma Gandhiji on influence of Geeta on his Life. Gandhi on Bhagavadgita by Jyotsna Kamat First Online: June 01, 2004 Page Last Updated: February 09, 2014 The Bhagavad-Gita or the sacred song, is a Hindu poem with deep philosophy, spirituality and divinity embodied in it.

Mahatma Gandhiji on influence of Geeta on his Life

It primarily is a wartime counsel between Krishna and his disciple/relative warrior Arjuna. Gandhi has often acknowledged its profound effect on his life. It is strange but interesting that Gandhiji's first introduction to Gita was in England and through two English brothers. Many language versions and interpretations of Gita are in vogue. The Mahabharata war in this great book was only a pretext, he felt. Even winning the war did not bring happiness. Krishna of Bhagavad-Gita is wisdom personified, to Gandhi. Self realization or liberation may be the goal of Hindu philosophy. Gandhi on BhagawadGita: The Gita is the universal mother. See Also: Hinduism Potpourri -- Hindu mythology, point of views, pictures of deities, sages and stories. Gandhiji 4.