Gandhi

(October 2nd, 1869- January 30th, 1948)
 * A very important leader for India during their revolution for independence
 * Led many civil disobedience and non-violent protests
 * To end unfair British taxation
 * To end the caste system
 * To end discrimination
 * Was a leader for many and taught many his tactics of peace and civil disobedience
 * He believed in:
 * Civil Disobedience
 * The tactic of non-cooperation to protest unjust laws
 * Non-cooperation is just as good as cooperation with just laws
 * He believed that it had become sacrilegious to say "no" to the commanding power, but by doing so, they people had no say and evil was created
 * People must boycott schooling because the schools were run by the British, this allowed for the British to control the educated Indians because it imposed their ideas upon them. In order to root out the evil, they must create their own schools with pure ideas.
 * To achieve independence, one must purify themselves
 * To purify, he must get rid of all evils
 * Modernizing through purification
 * Truth is power
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">"The youth of a nation are its hope"
 * <span style="color: black; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">Equality
 * Gandhi's ideas were not realistic at the time because it would be nearly impossible for all people to come together and purify all things evil. However, it gave hope the people that wanted to purify and allowed for some change to come about.
 * He believed that in order to change the future, the people must endure pain and suffering now.

Mohandas K. Gandhi (Mahatma - "Great Soul") = born 1869 in rich, devout family, studied law in Britain, worked as lawyer against discrimination against Indians in South Africa, developed policy of Satyagraha, non-violent, non-cooperative movement, returned to India in 1915, became leader of INC in 1921, traveled across India teaching Satyagraha and encouraging unity between all classes and religions, especially famous for fasting, the Salt March of 1930 (protesting the British salt tax), and for Swadeshi (boycotting British goods, such as clothes), assassinated by Hindu fanatic