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Vinoba Bhave was a scholar, thinker, and writer who produced numerous books. He was a translator who made Sanskrit texts accessible to the common man. He was also an orator and linguist with an excellent command of several languages (Marathi, Kannada, Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu, English, and Sanskrit). Bhave was an innovative social reformer.
The whole concept of Satyagraha (Satya is truth which equals love, and agraha is force; Satyagraha, therefore, means truth force or love force) was profoundly significant to me. As I delved deeper into the philosophy of Gandhi, my skepticism concerning the power of love gradually diminished, and I came to see for the first time its potency in ...
Laxminarayan Lal was born on 4 March 1927 in Jalalpur, Basti district of Uttar Pradesh. [2] He earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree with his thesis on "Development of the craft method of Hindi stories". [3]
Gandhiji wrote seven books and did a Gujarati translation of the Bhagvad Gita.These eight texts form the section Key Texts. These are Hind Swaraj, Satyagraha in South Africa, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth, From Yervada Mandir, Ashram Observances in Action, Constructive Programmes: Their Meaning and Place, Key To Health, and Gandhi's translation of the Gita as ...
A book originally published in Gujarati and later in English titled 'Character And Nation Building' is a summary of 'Ashram observances and constructive programme' discusses these vows. [2] The eleven vows were: [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
English: Picture to describe M.K./Mahatma Gandhi's Satyagraha doctrine. Own interpretation. Source: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha). Dover Publications 2001, ISBN 978-0-486-41606-9. Especially page 37-47: Satyagraha Ashram Vows (from the Sabarmati-Ashram of the 1930ies).
The Salt march, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March, and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India, led by Mahatma Gandhi. The 24-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly .
The movement was one of Gandhi's first organized acts of large-scale satyagraha. [2] Gandhi's planning of the non-cooperation movement included persuading all Indians to withdraw their labour from any activity that "sustained the British government and also economy in India," [ 7 ] including British industries and educational institutions. [ 7 ]