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Mahatma Gandhi > 
Gandhi became the international symbol of a free India. He lived a spiritual and ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and meditation. The Mahatma's political and spiritual hold on India was so great that the British authorities dared not interfere with him. In 1921 the Indian National Congress, the group that spearheaded the movement for nationhood, gave Gandhi complete executive authority, with the right of naming his own successor. The Indian population, however, could not fully comprehend the unworldly ahimsa. A series of armed revolts against Great Britain broke out, culminating in such violence that Gandhi confessed the failure of the civil-disobedience campaign he had called, and ended it. The British government again seized and imprisoned him in 1922.
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India and Its Neighbors
India, in the cliched observation, is not merely a country but a continent. Its population, which crossed one billion in the year 2,000 AD, presents the most extraordinar... |
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Nehru, First Prime Minister of India
Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964), also called Pandit ('Teacher') Nehru, was the leader of the (moderately) socialist wing of the Indian National Congre... |
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The Salt March of Gandhi
The Dandi March : A simple act of making salt
shakes the British Empire.
In early April, 1930 Gandhi, 61 years old, reached Dandi after walking 241 kilometers in 24 day... |
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