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Sep 10, 2023 · G20 leaders paid their respects at a memorial site dedicated to Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi on Sunday — a day after the forum added a new member and reached agreements on a range of issues but softened their language on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Jun 19, 2024 · Maya Jasanoff on the changes that Narendra Modi has in store for Gandhi’s ashram and whether they will drain the Mahatma’s legacy of its political substance.
- Gandhi’s Racism
- The Toppling of Gandhi’s Statues in The Us
- Hindu Nationalism: The Ideology That Murdered Gandhi
- What Is to Be Done with Gandhi, Today?
Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit and went on to spend 21 years in the then-British colony. During the two decades he spent in South Africa, most of his actions and words demonstrated his anti-Black racism. In fact, he rose to prominence in colonial South Africa, not because of his anti-racist activis...
In this context, it is not difficult to understand why some in the contemporary anti-racism movement in the US perceive Gandhi as racist and want to remove his statues from public spaces alongside those of American and European colonists and slave traders. Targeting Gandhi statues in the US, however, stands to harm not help the ongoing racial justi...
On January 30, 1948, Gandhi was shot dead by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist and longtime member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) – the ideological backbone of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Godse assassinated Gandhi because he believed, like most Hindu nationalists, that Gandhi had favoured Muslims during the partition of India...
Neither Gandhi’s political ideology nor his life is beyond criticism. From the firebrand Marxist Bhagat Singh who criticised Gandhi’s political tactics, to the Dalit stalwart Ambedkar who condemned his approval of the Hindu caste system, there have always been many who fiercely opposed and strongly criticised India’s “Mahatma”. Even today, author a...
Jan 24, 2022 · On the evening of 30 January 1948, Nathuram Vinayak Godse shot Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi dead at point-blank range as India's most venerated leader emerged from a prayer meeting in the...
3 days ago · Mahatma Gandhi, the revered Indian leader and advocate of nonviolent resistance, inspired a nation to fight for independence from British rule through peaceful means, leaving an enduring legacy in history.
- Initially, Gandhi’s campaigns sought to combat the second-class status Indians received at the hands of the British regime. Eventually, however, th...
- Gandhi’s family practiced a kind of Vaishnavism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism, that was inflected through the morally rigorous tenet...
- Within India, Gandhi’s philosophy lived on in the messages of reformers such as social activist Vinoba Bhave. Abroad, activists such as Martin Luth...
- Gandhi’s father was a local government official working under the suzerainty of the British Raj, and his mother was a religious devotee who—like th...
- As lauded a figure as Gandhi has become, his actions and beliefs didn’t escape the criticism of his contemporaries. Liberal politicians thought he...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; [c] 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
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