Mahatma GandhiOnly quite a few persons had won the hearts of several millions in the world cutting across all social, cultural and geographical barriers as Mahatma Gandhi did. In winning Independence for his mother country India through a peaceful, yet vigorous agitation, he showed to the world the power of Ahimsa or non-violence, a core tenet of religions that originated in Bharat.
Even decades after his death, the ideas and thoughts the Mahatma left behind continue to inspire people across the globe who dream of and work for a peaceful tomorrow.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) is honoured in India as 'Father of the Nation'. Gandhi Jayanthi, the birth anniversary of Gandhiji is an occasion for all Indians to reaffirm their commitment to the causes that the Mahatma stood for. On the occasion of the 140th birth anniversary of the Mahatma, we present our viewers an exclusive collection of videos depicting various moments of his life.
Gandhi
Biography of Gandhi, Father of Nation, India. Known all over the World as Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948), Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born at Porbunder in Kathiawar of the then British Read more...
Mahatma Gandhi
History marks Gandhi as one of the greatest political leaders of the world, the leader of India’s great movement for independence, the champion of peaceful civil disobedience, of Satyagrah Read more...
Father of Nation
Indian history of the first half of the twentieth century is in fact the biography of the last fifty years of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, widely known as Mahatma Gandhi or Gandhiji. ‘Mah Read more...
Einstein on Gandhi
In the words of Albert Einstein, “Mahatma Gandhi's life achievement stands unique in political history. He has invented a completely new and humane means for the liberation war of an oppress Read more...
Martyrdom of Gandhi
Today the world has re-discovered the significance of the life, work and message of Gandhi and the very word Gandhi invites now instantaneous attention. Lucky are those who become idols during th Read more...
Mahatma Gandhi : Childhood
Mohandas Gandhi was born in 1869 at Kathiawar in the modern state of Gujarat, as the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand Gandhi, the Prime Minister successively of some of the states, Read more...
Gandhi studies in England
After passing his matriculation examination, Gandhi joined a local college for higher studies, but after the first term, he dropped off and sailed for England, at the age of 19 to continue his stu Read more...
Gandhi goes to South Africa
Reaching India, he started legal practice as a draftsman. In 1893 he was drafted by an Indian firm, Dada Abdulla & Co., to go to South Africa to represent them in legal courts. It was in S Read more...
Discrimination in train
After a couple of days stay in Durban Gandhi left for Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal, where he had to attend to a law suit for his client. A fist class ticket was purchased for him. When the t Read more...
Stage coach incident
The next evening he continued the train journey, this time without a mishap. But on the journey from Charlestown to Johannesburg which had to be covered by stagecoach he was made to sit with the coach Read more...
First Public Speech of Gandhi
The law suit entrusted with him by a client was his chief mission there, but his sense of social justice had been aroused by his own experience of the humiliation his countrymen, Indian people wer Read more...
Natal Indian Congress
Gandhi had to face various forms of racial and color prejudice and he would not tolerate it. He took a momentous decision to fight the color discrimination even at the cost of not returning to India a Read more...
Gandhi against discriminatory laws
By this time, the people in South Africa were quite excited at the reports of this young Indian lawyer, Gandhi, fighting for the cause of the South African Indians. His style of agitation and figh Read more...
Indian opinion
In 1901 he again traveled to India and attended the Congress Session and moved a resolution on the South African Indian problem. Next year he traveled up to Rangoon in Burma and met Gopal Krishn Read more...
Gandhi and Bhagavad Gita
Apart from the legal and public interest causes that Gandhi immersed himself in, he also began to spent time on matters religious. It was his Christian friends who influenced him the most during his e Read more...
Vegetarianism and naturopathy
Vegetarianism which he started following while in London as a student became another unalterable principle of his life. He also became an ardent follower of the Naturopathy, a way for the maintena Read more...
Home Rule Movement
Those were the formative periods of Gandhi’s political life and personality. He wrote and read continuously. His readings took him to Tolstoy and to Ruskin. He wrote articles in Gujarati on Read more...
Origin of Satyagraha
He traveled to London to meet the Colonial Secretary of the British Government to present the case of the Indians. But in 1907, the Transvaal Parliament passed what was called the ‘Asiatic Read more...
Passive resistance
Disinterest in worldly possessions, practice of Brahmacharya, fight against ‘black acts’ by passive resistance, eschewing violence as a tool for resistance, Satyagraha, p Read more...
Fight to modify Indian marriage laws
In 1911, a provisional settlement of the Asiatic question in the Transvaal brought about a suspension of the satyagraha. In the following year, the Indian leader Gopala Krishna Gokhale visited Read more...
Gandhi visits King his usual attire
And he entered the palace as he had said. When informed about how Gandhi was going to visit him at the palace, the King was angry. That fakir who behaved haughtily with my trusted officers? You invite Read more...
Gandhi meets king
When introduced, the King told Gandhi that he had met him for the first time in South Africa. He had a very good impression of Gandhi at that time. What happened afterwards, the king wondered. “ Read more...
Gandhi warns re-launching struggle
He reached Bombay to get reports about the reign of terror the new viceroy unleashed on India. Beatings, shooting, arrests, and imprisonment – the spirit of the Gandhi-Irwin pact had already Read more...
Gandhi arrested
And Gandhi himself was arrested and sent to prison without any trial or charge sheet. Sardar Patel, Sarojini Naidu, and several other close associates of Gandhi and leaders of the Congress Read more...
Gandhi opposes suppression
Gandhi gathered all this information and it put him in deep pain and sadness. He sat in silence in the courtyard of Yeravda Prison. He wrote long letters to the Prime Minister in London, expre Read more...
Gandhi fasts against segregation
But the Prime Minister’s reply was only a reiteration of the earlier proposal to have separate constituencies for the oppressed classes and decision on it. And therefore, Gandhi entered into Read more...
Gandhi fasts at Yervada
The whole country was sad to hear that Gandhi began his fast unto death. People knew he would not relent nor would the government. This created a sense of deep concern and anxiety all over about the g Read more...
Congress endorses resolution
The Pune Protocol was endorsed by a meet of the leaders and it asked the government to take necessary steps to see that Gandhi ended his fast. The meet also endorsed a resolution in which it was s Read more...
Gandhi resigns from the Congress
In September 1934, Gandhi resigned form the Congress Party. What provoked him into this extreme step was the differences of opinion and approaches between him and the Party.
Early that yea Read more...
Gandhi says earthquake a punishment
Gandhi wrote in his weekly Harijan that the earth-quake was god’s punishment for the practice of untouchability. Poet Tagore ridiculed the superstitious conclusion. Several other lea Read more...
Gandhi resigned from congress
There was a move to introduce a bill ensuring every one including the untouchables to enter the temples. But certain sections of people stood against this. Gandhi was unhappy over this.
He wa Read more...
Leaders shocked on Gandhi’s decision
India was shocked. Gandhi’s decision might be a temporary expression of his displeasure some of the leaders took it that way. But Gandhi now concentrated on villages and their li Read more...
New Constitution for India
History was being made for India very fast. In 1935 the British gave India a new constitution. This legislation was based on a recommendation submitted before the British Parliament on the basis of th Read more...
Gandhi for rural reconstruction
Gandhi was in Wardha when all these were happening in India. He was concerned with his work of rural reconstruction – untouchability, family planning, proper sanitation, mixe Read more...
Congress opposes
Important events were taking shapes for India. The Congress party leaders were making preparations to take part in the general elections the government was planning as part of the implementati Read more...
Congress wins election
Gandhi did not take any part in the electioneering. Pandit Nehru was the leader of the campaign. He toured through several parts of the country –more than 50,000 miles. He spoke to milli Read more...
Congress ministries in the provinces
But the governors were not willing to accept this suggestion and the condition. The disagreement was finally patched up on a compromise formula brought up by the viceroy to the effect that the governo Read more...
People disillusioned in congress rule in provinces
Congress ministries came into being in 1937 in a number of states and so the annual Congress meeting was not held that year. Though the central administration continued to be what it was till then Read more...
Consolidation of congress groups
It was then that the Congress elected Subhash Chandra Bose as its president and in the 51st Congress session held in Haripura in Gujarat with Bose in the chair praised Gandhi’s leadership an Read more...
Gandhi defines congress
The most important reason for the Hindu-Muslim rift is the feeling that Congress is the only Indian national political party. Is not this correct, asked a European journalist. Gandhi told Read more...
Bose defeats Gandhi’s candidate
In 1939 Indian National Congress was to elect its new president at its session to be held in Tripuri. Gandhi has chosen Pattabhi Sitaramaiah as his candidate for the post, if Maulana Abul Kala Read more...
Congress reiterates faith in Gandhi
It was a surprise for many. Gandhi said candidly that he did not like Subhash Chandra Bose right from the beginning. He did not like Bose being elected president again. He did not agree to wha Read more...
Gandhi's son embraces Islam
We have now seen how Gandhi moved away from the Indian National Congress platform. The congressmen and their ways made him frustrated and that was why he moved away from the politics of the Congress p Read more...
Gandhi as a person
Gandhi was always considerate to his colleagues. He was careful to see that none of them was put to any difficulty or inconvenience because of their being with him. Even at the cost of his own inc Read more...
Gandhi, Congress and Second World War
The world was plunged into another great war in 1939. The clouds had been gathering for a long time. When the war broke out, Gandhi could not but come back again to the forefront of politics. We have Read more...
Hindu-Muslim divide, British target
But Winston Churchill, the new Prime Minister was in no mood to give any concession to India and its leaders. He said he had become the Prime Minister not to preside over the liquidation of the Britis Read more...
Gandhi demands better approach to India
Gandhi pointed out as in a reply to the League’s stand that Congress is not a Hindu outfit and that the Hindu Mahasabha would look after the Hindu case as the Muslim League would the Muslim Read more...
Disciplinary action on Bose
While Britain was taking on Hitler’s Germany in the battlefields of Europe, the Viceroy of India invited Gandhi for a discussion (February 1940), but it was a futile attempt.
At the Read more...
Total Independence Resolution
In March, the All India Congress held its annual session and adopted a resolution which categorically declared total independence or complete independence was the only solution to the Indian Probl Read more...
Subhash Chandra Bose's criticism
Almost around the same time two significant developments were taking shape in two different places. One was a meeting of the ‘anti-Congress Congress meet’ called by Subhash Chandra Bose] Read more...
Stafford Cripps Mission
History was evolving very fast during those days. France fell before Hitler in the war front. Britain was shaken badly. There was no assurance that they would safeguard India towards which the Japanes Read more...
Partition of India
But the Muslim League did not accept the condition on the constitution because there was no mention of ‘Pakistan’ in the suggestions of Cripps. Gandhi too did not agree to the Cripps sugge Read more...
Quit India Movement
In the war front, Japan was advancing towards India after conquering Malaya, Singapore and Burma. India could be conquered any time.
Gandhi and a large number of the leaders in the Congress Read more...
Death of Kasturba
Quit India movement launched in the early hours of August 9, Gandhi and all other senior leaders of the Congress were arrested. The news of these arrests spread like wild fire all over India, Read more...
Demand for Pakistan intensifies
Days passed by. The war ended with the defeat of Germany, suicide of Hitler, the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagazaki in Japan by using the atomic bombs for the first time in history, the defeat of J Read more...
Decision for partition
Noakhali, a district in East Bengal, was a Muslim-majority area where a fierce clash between them and the Hindu minority created nation-wide anxiety and concern, was Gandhi’s next destinatio Read more...
India Wins Freedom
And India won its freedom from the British at the midnight of August 15. Jawaharlal Nehru took over the reigns of power from the British and was sworn in as the first Prime Minister of India. The Read more...
Gandhi in Calcutta - Part I
“I spent India’s day of independence with Mahatma Gandhi in Calcutta – and watched him broker a miraculous peace between the city’s warring Hindus and Muslims”, w Read more...
Gandhi in Calcutta - Part II
Horace Alexander joined Gandhi in Bihar, and they travelled together to Calcutta, where he was staying for a couple of nights in the ashram of one of his fellow workers. Horace went to his Ind Read more...
Gandhi in Calcutta - Part III
A deserted Muslim house was found for the two men in a section of the city called Belighat. On the afternoon of 13th August, I was driven there by an Indian friend, but when we arrived we were met by Read more...
Communal Riot
But the peace was short-lived. Communal clashes vitiated the atmosphere by the end of the month. Loot, arson, murder.
Gandhi went on a fast. He declared his fast would end if only sanity Read more...
Attempt on Gandhi's life
“I cannot live while hatred and killing mar the atmosphere”, said Gandhi in utter despair and anguish. And he went on another fast of his life on January 13, 1948, just 17 days behind Read more...
Last Day of Gandhi’s Life – I
A graphic and vivid account of the last day of the life of Mahatma Gandhi has been given by Tushar A. Gandhi, one of the Mahatma’s great-grandson, author, activist, and speaker in his bo Read more...
Last day in Gandhi's life – II
He used to tease the young women in his entourage for having weak physiques. On learning that one of them, who was to have left Delhi that morning, missed her train because she could not find conv Read more...
Last day in Gandhi's life – III
Then he had a stream of visitors. The last among them was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the Deputy Prime Minister. He came at 4 p.m. At 4.30 his evening meal, of almost the same contents as in the mor Read more...
Last day in Gandhi’s life – IV
Suddenly a stout young man in khaki elbowed his way towards Gandhiji. He appeared to want to touch the Mahatma’s feet. One of the girls, attending on Gandhiji told the young man not to do it, si Read more...
Romain Rolland on Gandhi
What did Gandhi do for humanity? The moral influence of his teachings, especially that of the non-violent technique for fighting against injustice and unfailing adherence to truth and compassion i Read more...
Gandhi-Irwin Pact
While the whole of India was thus electrified and super-charged with the call for the peaceful fight for Indian independence, talks were going on in Delhi’s Viceregal palace between Irwin, the V Read more...
Protest on Bhagat Singh's hanging
At the same time there was enough provocation for the people in different parts of the country to move against the government or British India.
The hanging of Bhagat Singh, the great Indi Read more...
India celebrated independence day
One can imagine the strong feelings of anger and anguish these words of an important personage from England, defaming and describing in vulgarly sarcastic words the ‘Mahatma’ of India, Read more...
Second Round Table Conference
Gandhi, addressing the session, stressed the importance of Hindu-Muslim amity and only if this was achieved, the goal of complete Indian independence could be won. If the riotous communal situatio Read more...
Gandhi to attend Second Round Table Conference
Now the deck is cleared for Gandhi to proceed to London to participate in the second round table conference as the Indian Congress Party’s lone delegate. There were some other delegates too, Read more...
The trip to attend Second Round Table Conference
In his trip to London for Second Round Table Conference, Gandhi used to get up every morning at 4 and did his prayers. In the evening prayers the other Indian passengers, and some Europeans used to pa Read more...
Second Round Table begins
In London, the government made elaborate arrangements to see that Gandhi, who came for the Second Round Table Conference, does not attract huge crowds.
A hotel room was booked for him for Read more...
Speech of Gandhi at Second Round Table
Gandhi’s speech was widely appreciated by it wisdom, commonsense, intelligence and balance. Though the conference ended without yielding any positive result, Gandhi was able to transmit his Read more...
Gandhi reiterates nonviolence
But the party would not try to throw the foreigners out by any violent means. Violence or using force is against his faith. Nonviolence is the Indian motto.
A nation of 350 million people did Read more...
Gandhi compared with St. Francis
The 62nd birthday of Gandhi was celebrated at the Kingsley Hall by the inmates. It was for the first time that an Indian leader’s birthday is celebrated there. They prepared a simple meal Read more...
Gandhi meets George Bernard Shaw
This leader from India, Gandhi, was a mystery and a wonder for the British. The way he lived everyday was news in London. His day began at four and he kept on working well past midnight.
Atte Read more...
Gandhi refuses to change his usual attire
King George of England gave a reception to the participants of the Round Table Conference at the Buckingham Palace. Gandhi was one of the invitees.
What would be his dress like, when he g Read more...
Satyagraha in South Africa
It is thus a biographical note on Gandhi’s final days in South Africa goes: It was illegal for the Indians to cross the border from the Transvaal into Natal, and vice versa, without a permit Read more...
Back to Mother India
The young Indian barrister who left for South Africa in search of fortune, finally returned to India in January 1915 not as a rich man, but as a poor Mahatma, to serve his motherland.
He was in t Read more...
Gandhi meets Jinnah
He started off from Bombay, on the western side of India and in a huge reception given to him in his native Gujarat, and it was Mohamed Ali Jinnah who delivered the welcome address. Gandhi’s Read more...
Gandhi meets Gokhale and Tagore
Gandhi, during his travel across India, first met Gopal Krishna Gokhale, whom he considered as one of his political mentors. In Calcutta he wanted to meet Rabindranath Tagore the poet, but Read more...
Gandhi at Banaras Hindu University
Gandhi who became the greatest crowd puller in India and a magnetic speaker in the years to come, gave his first pubic address in India on the occasion of the inaugural of the Banaras Hindu Univ Read more...
Gandhi’s speech at Banaras Hindu University
He reminded his audience that it was not by speeches, but by deeds that they had to serve the people. He pointed out the importance of cleanliness in private and public life and told even the holy V Read more...
First Satyagraha
Gandhi, the exponent of the Satyagraha movement, staged his first satyagraha in Champaran, in Bihar. It was in 1917. The poor peasants, the indigo growers, of the district invited Gandhi to go Read more...
Gandhi meets Rajendra Prasad
Gandhi and Rajendra Prasad met only the next day. Before this meeting, Gandhi met another person, Acharya Kripalani, who was a professor in the neighboring Mussafirpur. Kripalani was later Read more...
Indigo farmers learn Satyagraha
When the planters came to know that Gandhi had arrived to inquire into the sufferings of the indigo farmers, they were angry and they asked the police chieftain to ask Gandhi to leave the district. Ga Read more...
Sabarmati Ashram
After returning from Champaran, Gandhi had to relocate his Ashram from Kochrab to another place because of the outbreak of plague there.
He purchased 20 acres of land on the banks of the Rive Read more...
Gandhism
Truth for him is not just telling lies. One should be prepared to earn the displeasure of friends and relatives for truth.
Ahimsa for him was not indulging in killing. Causing pain to others b Read more...
Gandhi moves to Kheda
After Champaran, Gandhi had to involve himself in the agrarian trouble in the Kheda district of Gujarat. The peasants there were in starvation. But they were forced to pay the tax. Gandhi aske Read more...
Home Rule League
The Indian political scene was overshadowed those days by two important persons – Balagangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant. The had set up Home Rule Leagues, Tilak’s in Maharah Read more...
Goat milk to Gandhi's menu
Gandhi had been traveling all these days through various parts of India on matters of public interest and spreading the message of his Satyagraha.
The wanderings and hard work and the tig Read more...
Gandhi becomes active in Indian Politics
Gandhi moved from backstage to the center-stage of Indian politics in 1919. It was the denial of civil rights brought about by the notorious ‘Rowlatt Bill’ which brought Gandhi into active Read more...
Rowlatt Bill
This report was penned by a committee chaired by Sir Sydney Rowlatt, a judge of the High Court in London. The evidence and the other material for the report were collected in camera sessions.
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Gandhi calls Hartal
Though unwell, Gandhi went to the legislative assembly and watched the debates going on there on the proposed bill. He was convinced that the bill, which aimed at curtailing even the basic civil right Read more...
Weekly newspaper Satyagraha
The hartal was observed all over India. Irrespective of religious colors, every shop owner and businessman closed down his establishment. In towns and even in remote villages, people stopped worki Read more...
Gandhi arrested – I
The enthusiasm with which the people all over India responded to Gandhi’s call and took part in the hartal surprised the observers and even Gandhi had not imagined that he had such a vast and st Read more...
Gandhi arrested – II
The news of the arrest of Gandhi, when it reached the towns and cities of India, Indian people were furious and the news spread like wild fire creating great commotion. Crowds gathered and it led to v Read more...
Gandhi suspends Satyagraha
When Gandhi came to know that a police officer had been killed by the mob in Ahmedabad, Gandhi was shocked and he was very sad. He said he felt that a rapier which ran through his body could hardl Read more...
Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh – I
It was on the same day when Gandhi entered into a three-day fast in Ahmedabad that a terrific event that marked one of the blackest days in British India history occurred in Jallianwalla Bagh at A Read more...
Massacre at Jallianwalla Bagh – II
Jallianwalla Bagh was an open space, around which were buildings, On April 13, a meeting was called there, and the place was were public meetings use to and the entry and exit points in to the Bag Read more...
Massacre at Jallianwalla Bagh – III
There was no warning and no notice, but Dyer gave order to shoot at the crowd. For about ten minutes, bullets were showered through the crowd of innocent and unarmed people who came to hear their Read more...
Massacre at Jallianwalla Bagh – IV
This brutal massacre of Jallianwalla Bagh was promptly followed up by the rulers by clamping martial law in Punjab, India. Massive arrests, floggings, other cruelties like issuing an order that th Read more...
Gandhi returns British Honors
These episodes, quite naturally, marked a turning point in the history of the Indian Struggle for freedom. The much trumpetted British moral prestige received a terrific and fatal blow. General Dyer h Read more...
Non-cooperation movement
Many Indians followed him by renouncing their titles and honors. Lawyers gave up their practice. Students left their classes. Thousands of the people from both the cities and villages traveled from pl Read more...
C. F. Andrews recommends Gandhi’s visit to Punjab
Gandhi had now become an essential factor in India’s dreams for the future. But the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab said that the responsibility of the unhappy and tragic events in Punjab was with Read more...
B. G. Horniman supports Gandhi
He was received at the railway station in Lucknow by a mammoth crowd and what Gandhi was able to see made him feel that the entire populace of the city had assembled there. He made elaborate surve Read more...
Prince of Wales visits India
The British felt that a visit to India by the Prince of Wales would bring about calm, but it did not yield the expected result. The Congress gave a call to boycott the Prince’s visit.&nb Read more...
Chauri Chaura
Gandhi had assured the people of India that the dawn of freedom would not be far away. But in 1922, there was a setback to the peaceful struggle of resistance.
A crowd resorted to violence in Read more...
Gandhi's speech at trial
Unfortunately, the British government thought that this was an opportunity to arrest Gandhi again and put to trial for treason.
At the trial Gandhi told the judge who was a British: Read more...
Gandhi trial in Sarojini Naidu's words
The trial and other proceedings lasted for ninety minutes. Sarojini Naidu, his disciple and famous poet, was by the side of Gandhi during the trial. The atmosphere inside the court room was super- Read more...
Gandhi studies in prison
Gandhi received the judgment gladly because a life in prison was something he liked more in that it gave him ample time for prayer and spinning on the wheel as also for reading and writing. Gandhi pre Read more...
Fight against social evils
Though released from prison, the next five years were to be a different period in Gandhi’s life. He seemed to be retired from his agitate role in the struggle for freedom. He chose, instead, a p Read more...
Gandhi fasts against communal riots
Hindus and Muslims were drifting apart from each other again. There were communal riots too here and there. Gandhi was in confusion. His people had ditched him again. The moral upsurge which he had ge Read more...
Simon Commission
What was the British Government’s approach to the demand of the Congress for India’s freedom? According to the India Act that came into being in 1919, a commission had to be appointed afte Read more...
Nehru moves Purna Swaraj resolution
The Congress was angry that no Indian was included in this body, appointed to look into the administrative future of India, even though there was an Indian in the British Parliament. The party therefo Read more...
Mayo's book on India
Certain significant events which occurred during this period influenced the struggle for freedom in more than one way. One of such events was a book by Ms Mayo styled “Mother India”.&n Read more...
Dominion status to India
Another development was Gandhi’s suggestion that India be given a dominion status when administrative reforms are brought in. This suggestion was first made in the report of the committe Read more...
First Independence Day
This episode electrified the general atmosphere of the struggle-torn India. Gandhi knew that the moment of another struggle is imminent. He told the people about it through his columns in th Read more...
Presidentship of congress to Jawaharlal Nehru
The All India Congress Committee session of 1929 at Lahore was historic in more than one way. It was at this session that Jawaharlal Nehru took over the Presidentship of the party from his father Mo Read more...
Salt Satyagraha Part – I
A general feeling that a great struggle for freedom is round the corner prevailed throughout the India. Gandhi was the central point of attention. It was evident that he was planning a nation-wide Read more...
Salt Satyagraha Part – II
The use of brutal force or arrests did not deter the masses of India from the movement of civil disobedience. The governmental machinery was in deep trouble. And utter confusion prevailed everywhere.& Read more...
Satyagraha
The hartal was observed all over India. Irrespective of religious colors, every shop owner and businessman closed down his establishment.
In towns and even in remote villages, people stopped work Read more...
Gandhi’s speech at trial
Unfortunately, the British government thought that this was an opportunity to arrest Gandhi again and put to trial for treason. At the trial Gandhi told the judge who was a British: “I Read more...
Amritsar congress convention
The Indian national leaders felt that it would be better to hold the convention of the Congress Party near Jallianwala Bagh. and it was held in Amritsar. This convention brought out the leadership qua Read more...
First Round Table Conference
Gandhi, in or out of jail, had become the greatest engine, giving dynamism to the movement.
The First Round Table Conference that met in November 1930 ended as a failure, if not a non-event. T Read more...