1. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
“Mahatma”
“Bapu”
(1869 – 1948)
Mahatma = Great Soul
Bapu = Father of the Nation

2. EARLY LIFE Vaishya caste Married age 13 Mediocre student
Law studies in England (outcast)
Mediocre lawyer in India
Accepted job in Africa

3. AFRICA
Went for 1 year
Stayed for 20
Beginnings of resistance (Train)

4. HIS CAUSES End caste system Women’s rights Independence
accepted untouchables
Women’s rights
disagreed with “purdah”
Independence
Offered no resistance
Saw prison as an opportunity
Argued for self sufficiency

5. PRINCIPLES Nonviolence Truth Silence Vegetarianism Celibacy
Anti-Materialism

6. NONVIOLENCE
“There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but none that I am prepared to kill for.”
Influenced others

7. “The truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction”
TRUTH and SILENCE
“The truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction”
One day per week spent in silence

8. “As the blood thins, the mind clears.”
VEGETARIANISM
“As the blood thins, the mind clears.”
Nuts, plantains, lemons, oranges, dates, rice and goats milk
Ate only milk and fruit for months
Often fasted for weeks
Only once ate meat
“What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.”
As the blood thins, the mind clears.

9. CELIBACY
“Not till India has become a free nation have we the right to bring forth progeny”
Supported only deliberate reproduction
Lived with wife “like a sister”
Advocated all of India to stop having children
Limit sensual desire
With wife-”From that time all dissension ceased”

10. ANTI - MATERIALISM The spinning wheel 4 hours a day
“Most machine products are unnecessary”
The spinning wheel
4 hours a day
Owned 3 pieces of cloth
Slept on ground

11. ASSASSINATION “He Ram!” ( “Oh God!” ) 1/30/48 Assassin = Hindu radical
Regarding Pakistan’s independence
Accused of weakening
the government