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1897

 * Gandhi came back from London into South Africa un-welcomed by the white people. While Gandhi was away in London, he wrote about the living conditions of Indians in Africa. His writings were changed and exaggerated by the publishers and reached the British in Africa, causing anger and resentment. Gandhi was greeted in back into South Africa with stones and bricks that the white British people were throwing. Gandhi refused to use violence and press charges. Due to his strategy of non-violence, Gandhi gained many supporters and followers. One, Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, pushed Natal legislature to pass a law that would give equal rights to all citizens, including Indians. Gandhi used his teachings to make life for Indians better in Africa.

May 1930
• Gandhi led a 241-mile march to the Arabian Sea from his settlement. This march was to protest the Salt Acts that the British had imposed onto the Indian residents. Gandhi was outraged at the new law because this act would hit and affect the poorest people whom he cared about the most. Gandhi broke the law by picking up a grain of salt, and by the next day most of the followers were arrested. The next day Gandhi’s supporters returned to continue their work and were brutally beaten by British officials. Using Gandhi’s teachings of non-violence, Gandhi’s supporters never fought back or resisted. Eventually the officers stopped and bad news about the British spread quickly. The British had attacked unarmed Indian residents unmercifully. Then on March 5, 1931, a Gandhi and Irwin pact was made. If Gandhi and his followers stopped their civil disobedience, Great Britain would allow them to collect and produce their own salt.

1932
• The British government was planning on holding separate elections for the untouchables in India. They were allowed to vote for their own representatives, but for the rest of the elections and votes, the untouchables were to combine their votes with the Hindus. Gandhi felt as if he had fought way to hard and long for the people of India to be separated even more. He was even more angered that the untouchables were being picked on and separated the most. He considered these people to be god’s children. Gandhi once said, “ I regard untouchability as the greatest blot on Hinduism.”(Anne M. Todd 69) To show his anger and resentment towards this new law, Gandhi swore he would fast until death. Six days later a proposal was made. It was called the Yeravda Pact. The pact was approved by the London Cabinet, stating that the separate elections of the untouchables would be not taken place any longer.

1947
• India is finally granted peace after all the fighting and hardships. Jawaharlal Nehru, a close friend of Gandhi’s, becomes prime minister. The British are willing to let India be recognized as their own as long as the Hindu and Muslim people are in agreement with each other. Gandhi worked so hard for all this to happen. He traveled around India, visiting anyone and teaching them about his beliefs in truth, non-violence, and love. Now India, thanks to Gandhi is free from British oppression.

Jan. 18, 1948
• When the Hindu and Muslim people of India still fight over land and resort to dreadful means of violence, Gandhi decides to fast until there is complete peace between the two religious groups. He exclaims his feeling s by saying, “Let all understand that a make believe peace cannot satisfy me. I don not want a temporary lull to be for looked by worse conflagration. In that event I shall have to go on and unconditional fast until death.” (Anne M. Todd 82) Gandhi already in his seventies and weak from his last fast, starts to loose a lot of weight. Gandhi starts to become severely ill from the lack of food and leaders from both groups sign an agreement of peace quickly before Gandhi’s health starts to fail even more. Using his resort of fasting, Gandhi brings peace between two rival religious groups, whose enmity has deep roots.

Pictures found in http://www.flickr.com/ Quotes 1. “Spiritual Leaders and Thinkers, Mohandas Gandhi.” By Anne M. Todd Page 69 2. “Spiritual Leaders and Thinkers, Mohandas Gandhi.” By Anne M. Todd Page 82

=Gandhi's Life= media type="custom" key="543685" =Social, Political, and Economic= (Mohandas Gandhi, American Decades. Gale Research, page 3) || Dressed simple and lived the life of a poor person, even though he came from wealth (Mohandas Gandhi, American Decades. Gale Research, page 4) || Mohandas Gandhi, American Decades. Gale Research, page3) || Encouraged the people to live a simpler life and produce their own clothing by weaving their own cotton (Mohandas Gandhi, Anne M. Todd, Page 25) ||
 * Social || Political || Economic ||
 * Promoted Non-Violence (Passive Resistance) (Mohandas Gandhi, Anne M. Todd, Page 2-5) || Nationalist (Mohandas Gandhi, American Decades. Gale Research, page 1) || Boycotts against the British economy (Salt March) (Mohandas Gandhi, Anne M. Todd, Page 2-5) ||
 * Moral and Spiritual Leader (Mohandas Gandhi, American Decades. Gale Research, page 1) || Had views of a modernized country
 * Tried to break the Caste System Mohandas Gandhi, American Decades. Gale Research, page 3) || Wanted to seperate and unify an independent India from Great Britain's strong grasps.

=Works Cited=

Butler, Francelia. “Mohandas Gandhi.” __Indira Gandhi__. New York: Chelsea, 1986. 21-25.

Luce, Henry R. “Soul Force Wins.” __TIme Capsule/__‌ __1932__. New York: Time, 1968. 127.

“Mohandas Gandhi.” 16 Dec. 1998. __Biography Resource Center__. Gale. School Lib., King of Prussia, PA. 12 Feb. 2008 <[|http://infotrac.galegroup.com/‌itweb/‌?db=BioRC>.]

“Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.” 1 Jan. 2001. __Biography Resource Center__. Gale. School Lib., King of Prussia, PA. 12 Feb. 2008 <[|http://infotrac.galegroup.com/‌itweb/‌?db=BioRC>.]

Todd, Anne M. __Mohandas Gandhi__. Spiritual Leaders and Thinkers. Philadelphia: Chelsea, 2004.