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[283] [284] He was publicly bestowed with the honorific title "Mahatma" in July 1914 at farewell meeting in Town Hall, Durban. [285] [286] Rabindranath Tagore is said to have accorded the title to Gandhi by 1915. [287] [g] In his autobiography, Gandhi nevertheless explains that he never valued the title, and was often pained by it. [290] [291 ...
Honorary title Meaning Statesman Photos Azad "Free" Figuratively = "The Freed Soul" Chandra ... Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi [23] Mahatma "Great Soul" .
Conferred upon by his long-time mentor Mahatma Gandhi [32] after the Bardoli Satyagraha. Vallabhbhai Patel: Shaheed e Azam Bhagat Singh [33] [34] "Great martyr" (Urdu). "Shaheed" = "martyr" and "Azam" = "Principal". Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar: Hindustani for "the brave". Popularly used by followers; now a part of popular culture. Vinayak ...
A private letter from Gandhi's friend Pranjivan Mehta to Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1909 referred to Gandhi with the title and thus remains the earliest written record available to use the title. [12] The use of the term Mahatma in Jainism to denote a class of lay priests, has been noted since the 17th century. A Mahatma is someone who practices ...
The Gandhi family is the family of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi; Mahatma meaning "high souled" or "venerable" in Sanskrit; [1] the particular term 'Mahatma' was accorded Mohandas Gandhi for the first time while he was still in South Africa, and not commonly heard as titular for any other civil figure even of similarly ...
Revered the world over for his nonviolent philosophy, Gandhi pioneered some of the peaceful acts civil rights activists still use today, like marches and controversial ones like hunger strikes.
The Constitution of the Republic of Texas was the supreme law of Texas from 1836 to 1845. On March 2, 1836, Texas declared itself an independent republic [1] because of a lack of support in the United States for the Texas Revolution. [2] The declaration of independence was written by George Childress [3] and modeled after the United States ...
Abbas Tyabji was born to a Sulaimani Bohra Arab family of Cambay in Gujarat.He was the son of Shamsuddin Tyabji and grandson of Mullah Tyab Ali, a merchant. His father's elder brother was Badruddin Tyabji, first Indian to become a Barrister later on a judge of the Bombay High Court and an early, loyalist president of the Indian National Congress.