Mahatma Gandhi grew to be one of India’s most prevalent opinionated and religious figures. In India, he is considered the father of the nation. His peaceful demonstrations initiated Indian sovereignty from the English colonies. His values and deeds have enthused civil liberties engagements across the world. He is deemed as an idol of global peace.
Gandhi was born in 1869 in Western India, specifically Gujarat. His birth date, on the second of October is celebrated globally under the International Day of Non-Violence. He had great tolerance towards all kinds of people, and lived his life encircled by spiritual morals of kindness and vegetarianism. The Indian stories, particularly of Shravana and king Harishchandra, have greatly affected Gandhi in his early days. In his memoirs, he discloses that these classics have permanently impacted his intellect. He notes: “It haunted me and I must have acted Harishchandra to myself times without number.” Gandhi’s prior self-recognition with truth and love as absolute principles is attributed to such heroic characters.
He was still a juvenile when he got married. At the age of 19, he traveled to London to study law. He then arrived at India to work as a legal representative, but the British government impeded his plan, and as a result, he was employed in South Africa where he has encountered all sorts of prejudice and adversity wherever he went. White people perceived him as a third-class inhabitant. This bad treatment made him realize the corruption and inequity in social justice and function of the British colonies in India. At the age of 24, Gandhi came to South Africa to represent the Muslim Indian Traders located in Pretoria. He remained in South Africa for 21 year and expanded his political perceptions, beliefs and political guidance talents. At his return to India in 1915, he was preparing to activate the notion of passive struggle he expanded when he was in South Africa. Between the years 1916 and 1945, Gandhi attempted diligently to liberate his people from the British governance. He launched numerous demonstrations in opposition to British tolls and proprietors, and endorsed insubordination to the British. He was detained and incarcerated for causing turbulence. Gandhi’s reputation reached the entire country.
In 1888, Gandhi traveled to England and enrolled at University College London (UCL) to study Indian law. His life in England was deeply affected by a promise he had made to his mother before departing India, about scrutinizing the principles of self-restraint from meat and alcoholic beverages and of indiscriminative sexual associations. Gandhi attempted to take on “English” traditions, namely learning how to dance. Nevertheless, he could not value the tasteless vegetarian food provided by his landowner and has often starved until he arrived at one of London’s rare vegetarian diners. On June 1891, Gandhi was called to the bar and later returned to India, where he found out that his mother had deceased while he was abroad and that his relatives have restrained from telling him about her death. He has failed to practice law in Bombay because he was reluctant to exclaim in court. He went back to Rajkot and tried to earn a humble income writing appeals for plaintiffs, however, he was obliged to shut down the practice when he went against a British official.
In South Africa, Indians were guided by rich Muslims, who recruited Gandhi as a legal representative and by poor Hindu workers with trivial civil rights. Gandhi believed them all to be Indians, considering “Indianness” has risen above religion and social group. He thought he could overpass historic disparities, in particular, religion, and transferred that faith back to India to apply it. His life in South Africa has introduced Gandhi to handicaps he had not recognized before. He came to notice that he was distant from the enormous difficulties of spiritual and civilizing life in India, and thought he recognized India by knowing and guiding Indians in South Africa.
On January 30, 1948, Gandhi was killed while marching to a stage from which he was to pray. The killer, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu separatist and was associated with radical Hindu Mahasabha who strongly resisted the principle of nonviolence and has accused Gandhi of preferring Pakistan (David). Two years later after his death India won the battle and earned its independence.
For all his cheer modesty, integrity, and conviction, I have chosen Gandhi as my favored leader and one of the most inspirational figures in history. I have also chosen Gandhi as the leader to talk about simply because his stories and life have touched me deep inside, and I can strongly picture him as a must be in today’s contemporary world and amid all the corruption, commotion, and dishonesty across the nation. I agree with every action he had to take and every word ha has uttered, for I profoundly deem him to be one of the greatest leaders and peacemakers of all time.