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is known as the father of india but throughout his life 100 crime shotgunned evoked mixed feelings he was viewed alternatively as a fanatic or an eccentric reactionary revolutionary saint almost saya or as a man who must be killed. the champion the philosophy of nonviolence only to die at the hand of an assassin. he led a peaceful resistance movement to free india from british rule yet independent india was born as an ally of rousseau carnage. image sectarian killings on an unprecedented scale gandhi risked his life to preach nonviolence until his dying day. on january 30th 1904. he was killed by
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a hindu nationalist with 3 shots to the chest. 931 gandhi was interviewed by an american journalist i think. your. and. if you compared. the late brother of gandhi's assassin was jailed
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for almost 2 decades at the time of the interview he was 85 years old and recalled every detail of the plot. but i'm better off. not going to say. not that i'm going to say well the one who assassinated gun navy then long as. the hero was. 948 i do not eat bread and. water i mean. india. there are 2 dead persons. not. in the indian capital delhi there are several sites dedicated to the memory of the man. the poet to gore gave the name mahatma great soul.
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this somebody the site where gandhi's body was cremated on a funeral pyre of sandal wood in accordance with hindu funeral custom. the national gandhi museum and a large house converted into a memorial museum after gandhi was assassinated on its grounds. every day crowds of visitors flock there from all over the country bengal and kerala pradesh and money poor. many indians rich or poor still see it as their duty to make the pilgrimage and pay homage. to the atmosphere feels more like a temple than a museum. one room has a series of dire honest depicting key scenes from gandhi's life. visitors remove their shoes to approach the spot where the mahatma fell to the assassin's bullets.
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photographs gandhi's meager personal belongings his notebooks walking-stick lettice even his blood stained clothes everything related to the life of the father of the nation has been preserved. when mohandas karamchand gandhi was born in 869 india was firmly under britain's imperial. like his father he seemed destined to serve the ruling palace. his family belong to the panni a caste hard working merchants from western state. gandhi's marriage at the age of
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13 was a ranged he and his wife cast about would have 4 children. when he was 16 his father told gravely in. gandhi's paragraph has described him as a devoted son who sat at his father's bedside. gandhi felt that he added judy to nurse his father the time he was dying and hopefully he wanted to actually be with him at the hour of his death. to kill a day when his father became critically ill he. felt more attracted to his wife and he was actually in the act of making love to her at the moment when his father died and a lot of historians looked at. his life feel that this was really something that colors his whole attitude to his sexuality. and led eventually to his deciding to
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renounce a sexual relationship with his wife. after passing his bar exams in london county return to india to practise law but soon went on to take up a short term position in south africa he ended up staying for 20 years. initially. in south africa live the life of a rich you'd have a quite an affluent lifestyle he hadn't really changed because of this very ascetic person dressing and. clothes and so on he was wearing western style so serious living well. but then on a train journey to pretoria a white passenger objected to gandhi's presence in a 1st class carriage and though he had a 1st class ticket he was thrown off the train he resolved to stay and fight for inequality in south africa.
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when he returned to india in 1915 gandhi was a changed man. the barrister had become a political activist trading his english suit and tie for a dhoti the traditional dress of the indian poor he says how to familiarize himself with the social problems in his homeland travelling by train across the country always in 3rd class. the movement for indian independence was gaining momentum gandhi addressed crowds in every town and village he visited he spoke of human dignity justice and independence. across the country nationalists organized bonfire protests to burn textiles imported from england. gandhi launched his charkha all spinning wheel movement.
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he declared it to. patriotic duty of every indian to spend $200.00 yards of cotton thread a day and to boycott textiles produced in the mills of manchester and liverpool. to become a symbol of the commitment of the nationalist corps to every every morning to sit down and to get out your spinning wheel to spin your cotton thread and they became very skillful at it you know they were spend hours every day doing this i'm going the saugus of something which was was it was almost a spiritual task of spinning you know for the good of the nation. 930 gandhi led to 3 weeks all to march walking 358 kilometers to the village of
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dandy on the arabian sea where he defined the british self monopolies by lifting and auctioning off fistful of songs. gandhi and his followers were arrested but it was a victory for the man who churchill contemptuously called the half naked foot here . coverage of the march captured the world's attention. gandhi had an innate sense of symbolism and mass communication. this seems like a contradiction to paradoxical for a man who came across as an ascetic someone who renounced worldly things in search of spiritual salvation. but he was a great politician and a great communicator us. said.
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gandhi's weapons with civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance the british countered with truncheons. colonial repression was often brutal prison. gandhi was jailed 7 times for a total of 4 years he started. 8 times serving 9 years. from the beginning to the end the struggle for independence was led by the indian national congress party. gandhi was its guiding light nearing its chief organizer. the 2 men shared a deep bond even if they didn't always see eye to eye. candy from a traditional merchant family now and they set it close in
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a dhoti. narrows the anger sized brahman well dressed and elegant with ideas rooted in socialism something like. socialism in the 1920 s. . gandhi was prepared to tolerate that because he believed that there would always basically be loyal to him. so that he gave narrow sort of certain amount of rope you could say you know to go his own way but gandhi would always be holding it i'm able to draw him in whenever he felt you know he was going to to to to create an extreme. and there when he was a you know that he was it was in his interests to keep him with god but he also had a genuine affection for gandhi there is own father had died in 931 and in many respects you can see gandhi sort of taking over that position of father
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figure for the area and so they do have a very close relationship despite the differences. the 2 men were very different not least in their views on religion. narry was a self professed atheist something rare in a country where refusing to express religious belief is a to boot. gandhi was deeply religious he began each meeting with prayer. life in india is permeated by the values of hinduism which assigns a person's caste on the basis of. that hinduism has been traditionally because it has a tolerant religion not given to proselytizing.
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islam had expanded under the reign of the mugu empress in northern india to become the country's 2nd largest religion. in british india muslims accounted for a quarter of the population. after the country's partition in 1947 that number dropped to 12 percent. hindus and muslims had long enjoyed a peaceful coexistence until political representation was attached to religious identity. the muslim league emerged as a political force in the 1930 s.
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with the aim of protecting the interests of indian muslims. but a new goal in the creation after britain's withdrawal from india of a muslim nation pakistan or land of the pier. the party was led by mohammed ali jinnah who had known gandhi for years both. came from they were good writing speaking people they were both lawyers had been educated in law and received training there so in a way there was had a lot in common but unfortunately they came into very sharp conflict early on after the return to india. in 1944 gandhi went to meet jinnah at his private residence in bombay. over the course of almost 3 weeks gandhi tieless he tried to dissuade from his plan for a muslim pakistan. he assured him that muslims would have an honorable place in
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a secular and democratic india. he even offered him the post of prime minister independent india's 1st government. to jinnah couldn't stand the affection and attention he was shown by. because like many muslims he viewed it as a patronize ing attempt by hindus to assimilate muslims. ghandi saw himself as a universalist he didn't want to be seen as hindu but his indians. god you know. yet everything about his style his dress was typically hindu dominion. so musical memory is embrace of renunciate are a disciplines and linking of ascetic practice with political aspirations all of that created the impression of a quintessential hindu sales. shimla
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the summit capital of british india. in the 1946 the leaders of the muslim league and indian congress party met here to discuss ways to implement gandhi's vision of a united independent india. that . nair is not for diplomacy failed in the face of generous intransigence. after 3 weeks the talks broke down. in june our campaign centered on a single topic congress was a hindu party with a hindu leader and if hindus won the 1st elections after independence muslims would face assimilation and oppression to survive they needed their own state pakistan.
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so in 146 he decides to take the matter to the streets general had been a strictly constitutional court edition before that and he'd been loyal to the british he hadn't ever been involved in civil disobedience campaigns he never adopted the sort of tart tactics that gandhi had to be $946.00 august $960.00 decides to take the issue to the streets he's going to show the power of muslims in india and he has a direct action. jinnah's call for direct action day on august 16th 946 in support of the demand for pakistan sparked an eruption of harrowing violence in calcutta. 5000 people were massacred and 20000 wounded most of the victims were hinting. that led to retaliatory attacks by hindus against muslims elsewhere reprisal killings spread across northern india entire families were slaughtered. some
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hindus now claim their religion was too passive and lacked martial art. to them the into value of tolerance was an inexcusable weakness which had for centuries allowed 1st the move and then the british empire is to enslave the hindu majority. they felt the time had come for hindus to assert themselves and for hindu men to reclaim their progress. if they wanted to reform hinduism and boost hindus moral and physical strength in every town and village where the movement had a local chapter activists convene mornings and evenings for ideological training and physical drills to prepare to fight muslims who were once again the enemy the more he saw if you don't want. internationalist. massacred muslims muslim league extremists hindus gandhi
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was horrifying. he began to fast in calcutta which he vowed to continue until the violence stopped. he refused to relinquish his vision of an india where the 2 communities could live in friendship and peace. and gandhi was watching all this he was doing his best he went to bangor he walked around the villages which where the muslims have massacred the landlords and he talked to the muslims he really put his life on the line and he went without any protection just a few of his followers walking on foot and he managed to persuade the muslims that there was not not right to do this as he walked people would throw glass pieces on the floor. in his spot and his answer to that was to even give more of the
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very simple founded speech he used in order to walk and start walking barefoot this had a tremendous more to impact and the fabric that we like to draw is between in the christian tradition the fiction of christ that is suffering for humanity tormenting the fish in order to make the martyr. be and then there is other retaliation by by muslims in east bengal whether in the majority they turned on him attack them massacred many and hindus and behati. the muslims and again they do the same in india and then in the punjab we see the muslims retaliating by attacking the sikhs and killing a lot of sikhs in march 947 so the whole thing is blowing up in a way that's becoming really completely uncontrollable. in march 947 lord louis mountbatten arrived in delhi as the last viceroy of india he had been touched by
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the british prime minister to negotiate an exit deal with indian leaders batten appeared bent on hastening the end of imperial rule and soon came to favor the option of partition. gandhi said the game and the game in india who are narky but don't party. we will sort it out once you are gone then we will see how to do it but the british said we will go only after you decide who should go. and that is all parties and became absolutely inevitable so by me he went to the extent of saying that. the only big platform is dick body. and then of course the congress leaders decided that they would accept the partition they felt the jew in the was able to stir up so much trouble for them that if they didn't concede that the 1st separate nation state of pakistan then he would he would cause terrible disruption within within india after independence and
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perhaps compromise the integrity of the new indian nation state perhaps collapse. says cyril radcliffe was appointed temin of the boundary commission in charge of equitably carving a muslim majority state from british india. he was assisted by to hindus and to muslims because he himself knew nothing of india that was why he'd been chosen to guarantee objective ety and fairness. most of india's muslims lived in the north the plan called for the creation of one state with 2 territories east and west pakistan located 2000 kilometers apart. but hindu and muslim communities in bengal and punjab we're in extra could be mixed drawing board is was an exercise in absurdity. on august 15th $947.00 the partition between india and pakistan was made official. as the clock had approached midnight there are learned there is the
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1st prime minister of independent india address the nation. if you do. a good thing with it to me. and now the time. when we showed you the big at the top of the midnight hour when we were living. in darwin all week in like an beat up. but the very morning after independence celebrations hindus in pakistan and muslims in india began to flee their homes muslims headed for pakistan well hindus set up for. india. enormous convoys of people moving in opposite directions the greatest mass migration in history. 10000000 people were displaced many were attacked by robbers and militants along the way
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a 1000000 people lost their lives. no one took responsibility for the tragedy but hindu nationalists accused gandhi of allowing muslims to steal parts of the hindu nation. we went to the delhi headquarters of the rightwing hindu muss about organization. there we spoke to its then president he maintained that his was the only group that sought to defend india's integrity. ok got it in the last of all of us the only major sun in india. richard will go. with the full coverage and explorations there. we. don't live do you. so
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the hindu nationalists claim that this was a vivisection of. something that the congress had betrayed the people in agreeing to in fact it was very much a part of their program to have a separate state and it's always serve their interests subsequently to have a separate state which is always a. i was always a red representation of. india's. a few months after independence the new states waged their 1st war over kashmir a province with a muslim majority but a hindu maharaja. the 2 sides agreed to a ceasefire along what's known as the line of control it divided the region into with one side at ministered by india and the other by pakistan of the 3 officially declared wars between india and pakistan to have been over kashmir and it remains a flash point to this day.
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on september the 9th 947 gandhi moved into the delhi home of his friend the industrialist and congress party supporter gunshy. in january of the following year gandhi began another indefinite fast saying he would only east if he saw a plan to stop the continuing violence hindus who had fled persecution in pakistan with dumbfounded by gandhi's empathy for muslims which was inherent in the 2nd in direct goal of his fasting. dandies hunger strike was also aimed at forcing the indian government to release pakistan share of assets from the treasury of british india. with the nic. that stood in. and said that i shall go straight. i should die. and the 50 paragraphs should
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be given then only i shall believe my past that moment. some yields take me because i did. die of hunger spray. bullets now. hindu nationalists found it scandalous that gandhi would fast to ensure india respected the financial clauses of the partition agreement and transfer 550000000 rupees to a country that had launched armed cross border raids on kashmir. so all on the ground did. of dennehy. i remember say when i sed. there's
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a deep. sea. not i end up. going to. see this myself. the attack of january 20th was botched god say was unable to reach the window from which he planted his gun he hadn't thought of bringing the ladder. so our right from the ridge. it was so high. you and. so. many throws. was. not. even my. near the wall. it was really a police. actions did not take place so probably
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. the group fled back to cuba to plan their we need to attack their accomplice who had set off the homemade bomb was arrested. under interrogation he revealed the names of his coconspirators . even now there is debate as to why the police failed to apprehend him and for 10 days. mark my bandings to sit in the monitor as you can see in this picture this was taken on 29th and woody on the eve of his boss ingleby. he would address people who are visiting here some would be very angry with him that they would i mean i don't know there was a thinking among them the bottle did not do enough to prove in the partition. on
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the gift of jedward he probably said. i didn't try to bestow argument to the store and vent to the pair. even in their bio clock are fired maybe privateers. the problem indicates exacts walked big on the variables favored by the assassin's bullet. in this pod no adam heart muddies this boy. girl there he stepped forward. he took 3 steps before mahatma gandhi and he saw him point blank. and if you see the photograph. of mahatma gandhi with the bullets it's on most you
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know it looks like a garden and it's almost in the same the circle of. the sassing gollin did mahatma gandhi the bullets and i think. at that one moment mahatma gandhi rose from the ashes from the earth and he became larger than life. in a radio broadcast narrow announce the news of gandhi's day. the light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere.
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near who and it's you know rue banned the movements he held responsible for gandhi says has a nation the hindu master bar and the hindu volunteer organization the r.s. sas 20000 r.s.s. militants were jailed some members during last us for. gandhi supporters targeted the brahmins of maharashtra the cost to which the assassin ghodsee belonged and which was closely associated with the hindu party and the r.s.s. . is. then the most about who has. the trial of gandhi's assassins was held at the red fought
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a highly symbolic location it was there that nehru had made his 1st speech to independent india and to this day the prime minister addresses crowds from the red force on independence day. india is a democracy the defendants had the right to a fair trial supposedly for the trial of the red 40 offered not i'm god sent the perfect platform to air his views. he refused legal defense and though he had lawyers he pleaded his own caps. but he didn't do it he stated that he had out it to his hindu faith and the back about good to which justified violence. he said he had been compelled to take action for the nation of hindus which gandy had betrayed . he needed to rid the nation of this man who persisted in weakening india starts pakistan. he described the assassination as
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a salutary act undertaken in the public interest not the rash deed of a lunatic but rather a deed motivated by political realism which had been well thought out and lacked the simoom or efficient on the. empath they really intended for a. developmental they're not put on board. and helping their. every nation their simple instruction. amid a resurgence of fundamentalism in india nationalist groups like the hindu must a bar enjoying a revival. at its daily headquarters there is a statue of its late leader. a contemporary of gandhi's and a nationalist but one with
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a very different ideology. or curse spawned the idea of hindutva or hindu miss a concept that inseparably links the hindu and indian identity that i'm going to say himself shared that i have more love than the big me but i ask there is no question that a long long. no doubt but in the law is not belong to. this is a doozy and of title. i has nor part in the murder of gangly there was a very closely linked between the leader off the hindu and the assassin the main a fast in and the main organizer of the conspiracy off. and. not to have a good thing he had been a close associate of father for it is the decade before the assassination and this man savage kurd was directly involved not just ideologically or inspiring but
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directly involved in the conspiracy to barter. souther courier and a group with the conspirators he was also arrested and tried but denied alternatives and was acquitted. going to remember again he himself said after the 1st assassination attempt. maybe the assailant is right maybe i am a nuisance in independent india says the dorset than the more than 1000000 this is the classical greek tragedy in its purest form where a victim and assassin have a secret understanding with. gandhi felt deep despair his method and his course had failed. sunni. despite his efforts to violence between hindus and muslims continued and despite his efforts india was fractured into.
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what use was he alive now. the tube home also. gandhi had envisioned an independent india that was self-sufficient and predominantly agrarian neris approach was more grounded in economic reality he aimed to combat economic stagnation and dire poverty with state centered planning and industrialization that relied on domestic industry after independence went all out for modernization. economic and in developing large scale industries building. which he. described as the new temples to india which would replace you know the old temples. it is difficult to know how gandhi respond to this had he been alive after $948.00 and it's likely that there would have come into some conflict over this because mayer
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didn't really put very much into trying to. maintain the gandhi and. economic program. to this day gandhi disciples gather on fridays to spin cotton and his commission site the same handwheel the same motions us back then when cotton was spun to create the basis for economic independence. and. today it's more of a ritual than a lesson in economic theory. you've got. to. keep misleading. to killing. people scully's principle of self-sufficiency did prevail until the
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early 990 s. . measures like high tariff wools and exchange rate management pretty. to domestic industry from foreign competition. has hit its peak just over the past few decades the country has really opened up to the forces of globalization. a growing middle class shops at new malls of these the temples of india today. and order if gandhi returned to india today he would be aghast to see how far the country particularly the middle class has succumbed to western consumerism. he preached the importance of self-sufficiency thing each village the defense of the weak and of form of asceticism according to such dictates as don't consume more
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than you need respect nature. there was a clear environmental subtext to gandhi's message for the critic they're going to. on march the 12th 2510 months after returning to power india's congress party marked the 75th anniversary of the so much. hundreds of people walked in the outburst footsteps following the same 358 kilometer route for 26 days. marches done traditional white clothing made of homespun cotton and the iconic gandhi kept. my.
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great grandson up to her level nehru role gandhi was 35 at the time of the procession and had only recently entered politics. he would go on to become party president. he joined the marches as they reached the coast in which are about 75 years to the day that mahatma gandhi shook the british empire to its core by harvesting a handful of salt. with their own $35.00 millimeter film. or undertow video the cameras captured the same scene. globalization has swept aside many of gandhi's principles but the mahatma's fundamental message has endured a message that speaks of the power of peace forgiveness and freedom and can transcend even the hatred that killed it.
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