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As part of the festival the British Library unveiled a new travelling exhibition "The Life of Gandhi", [2] with six 'panels' focusing on the following aspects of Gandhi's life and work: Non-violence and the influence of Jainism, Gandhi's work in South Africa, Gandhi's Philosophy, the Non-Cooperation and Quit India movements, and the ...
It has been suggested that the Semai's non-violence is a response to historic threats from slaving states; as the Semai were constantly defeated by slavers and Malaysian immigrants, they preferred to flee rather than fight and thus evolved into a general norm of non-violence. [42]
In April 1893, Gandhi, aged 23, set sail for South Africa to be the lawyer for Abdullah's cousin. [51] [52] Gandhi spent 21 years in South Africa where he developed his political views, ethics, and politics. [53] [54] During this time Gandhi briefly returned to India in 1902 to mobilise support for the welfare of Indians in South Africa. [55]
Along with many other texts, Gandhi studied the Bhagavad Gita while in South Africa. [137] This Hindu scripture discusses jnana yoga, bhakti yoga and karma yoga along with virtues such as non-violence, patience, integrity, lack of hypocrisy, self restraint and abstinence. [138]
A series of nationwide people's movements of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience, led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) and the Indian National Congress. In addition to bringing about independence, Gandhi's nonviolence also helped improve the status of the Untouchables in Indian society. [citation needed] 1929-1946 Pakistan
In 1946, the SAIC, with Mahatma Gandhi's support, resolved to protest the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act, which it nicknamed the Ghetto Act. [3] The NIC and TIC each established ad hoc committees – the NIC in March and the TIC in April – which organised a campaign of passive resistance against the law. [4]
The ashram, Gandhi's second in South Africa (the first was Phoenix Farm, Natal, in 1904) was named after Russian writer and philosopher Leo Tolstoy, whose 1894 book, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, greatly influenced Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence. Some members of Tolstoy Farm in 1910, Gandhi is in the middle, second row fifth from the right
Gandhi's deep commitment and disciplined belief in non-violent civil disobedience as a way to oppose forms of oppression or injustice has inspired many subsequent political figures, including Martin Luther King Jr. of the United States, [34] Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, [35] Nelson Mandela [36] and Steve Biko [37] of South Africa, Lech Wałęsa ...