[Mahatma Gandhi - Tribute To A Great Man On His Date Of Birth - Oct 2nd International Day of Non-Violence]

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Sabarmati Ashram (also known as Gandhi

Ashram, Harijan Ashram, or Satyagraha Ashram) is located in

the Ahmedabad suburb of Sabarmati adjoining to famous Ashram Road, at the bank of River Sabarmati, 4

miles away from the city Town Hall. This was one of the residences of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. This

ashram is now converted in to the national monument by the Government

of India due to its significance in Indian independence movement in the

form of Dandi March in 1930.

 

 

 

 

 

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2

October 1869 - 30 January 1948) was the

pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of Indian independence movement. He

was the pioneer of satyagraha resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence which led India to independence

and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the

world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi

('Great Soul', a honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore),

and in India also as Bapu . He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, during the

2 October, is commemorated there

as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, a coastal town in present-day Gujarat, India, on 2 October 1869. His father, Karamchand

Gandhi (1822-1885), who belonged to the Hindu Modh

community, was the diwan (Prime Minister) of the eponymous Porbander state, a small princely state in the Kathiawar Agency of British India.

His grandfather' s name was Uttamchand Gandhi fondly called as Utta

Gandhi. His mother, Putlibai, who came from the Hindu Pranami Vaishnava community, was Karamchand's fourth wife,

the first three wives having apparently died in childbirth.

Growing up with a devout mother and the Jain

traditions of the region, the young Mohandas absorbed early the

influences that would play an important role in his adult life; these

included compassion to sentient beings, vegetarianism, fasting for self-purification, and mutual

tolerance between individuals of different creeds

 

 

 

Mahatma

Gandhi's Life in

Pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Father Karm

Chand Gandhi s/o Uttam Chand Gandhi

 

Mohan's Grand

Father was Diwan of Porbandar, Gujarat

 

 

Mother Putli

Bai Gandhi

Born into a

modest Gujarati family,

Mohandas

Karamchand Gandhi

 

 

 

 

 

Mahatma Gandhi Profile..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mohandas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2nd. Oct. 1869

- Birth Place Porbandar, Gujarat

 

 

 

 

 

House

Mohan was only

7 when his father left the service of the Porbandar

state and move

with his family to Rajkot

 

 

 

 

 

1st. School -

age of 6, Mohan was in Central School near house at Porbandar, Gujarat

 

 

 

 

 

In 1887 Pass

Matriculation Exams from Ahmdabad center

and join the

collage at Bhav Nagar but

end of the

1st. term he left the collage to proceed to England for Studies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the early

age of 13, Mohan was married to

Kasturba of

same age at Porbandar, Gujarat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oil

Painting of Gandhi at Gandhi

Museum

 

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