Mohandas Gandhi
• Leader of the Indian Congress Party
• Led with style of protest called pacifism (non-violent resistance)
• Right hand man is Jawaharlal Nehru
• Believed that Hindus and Muslims could share an independent India
• Declare independence for India on Jan. 26, 1930
• Begin civil disobedience
• Assassinated by a fellow Hindu after the partition of 1947
• Led with style of protest called pacifism (non-violent resistance)
• Right hand man is Jawaharlal Nehru
• Believed that Hindus and Muslims could share an independent India
• Declare independence for India on Jan. 26, 1930
• Begin civil disobedience
• Assassinated by a fellow Hindu after the partition of 1947
Summary
He was the leader of the Indian Congress Party and a politician with a background of a lawyer (well-educated). He came from a upperclass family sent him to South Africa to become a lawyer but he followed pacifism (non-violent resistance) against British and was the right hand man was Jawaharlal Nehru. Ghandi believed that Hindus and Muslims could share an independent India and declared independence for India on Jan. 26, 1930. However he was assassinated by a fellow Hindu after the partition of 1947 which began civil disobedience.