Mahatma Gandhi:
- Inspirational Books : ‘civil disobedient’ written by Thoreau, ‘Kingdom of God is within you’ by Tolstoy, ‘Unto this last’ by John Ruskin, BhagwatGeeta, Kuran, Ramayana.
- Spent 21 years in South Africa.
- Returned to india on 9thjan 1915.
- There were three Satyagraha started by Mahatama Gandhi Gandhi(truth + non-violence) in the beginning:
- Champaran satyagraha,1917: Farmers were forced to grow indigo. Gandhiji fought against this practice.
- Ahmadabad satyagraha,1917: Workers-mill owner dispute,where mill owner were paying less.
- Khedasatyagraha(gujrat),1918: There was a famine in kheda and Britishers were not in mood to scrap the tax.
- Books by Gandhi: An Autobiography-The Story Of My Experiments With Truth, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule, by M. K. Gandhi, key to health.
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