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On this day - 1948 (Mahatma Gandhi); January 30th
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Friday, January 30, 1948. : Political leader and humanitarian, Mahatma Gandhi, is assassinated


Mahatma Gandhi was born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar, India. Gandhi was a peace-loving man who initially trained as a barrister in England, but was unsuccessful in pursuing a career in law once he returned to India. After accepting a post to Natal, South Africa, Gandhi experienced frequent humiliation and oppression commonly directed at Indians in South Africa. This caused him to then spend two decades fighting for the rights of immigrants in South Africa.

After WWI broke out, Gandhi returned to India. Here, he turned his back on western influences to embrace a life of abstinence and spirituality. Inspired by the American writer Henry David Thoreau's famous essay on "Civil Disobedience", Gandhi implemented his own campaign of non-violent civil disobedience to bring about change in Britain's oppression of Indians within their own country. Although frequently jailed by the British authorities, pressure from his followers usually secured his release before he fasted himself to death. Following WWII, he participated in negotiations which eventually led to India gaining independence from Britain.

Gandhi advocated that all people were equal under one God. On 30 January 1948, he was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic who could not accept Gandhi's belief that Muslims had equal value to Hindus and no-one was better than anybody else.


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Not just people being equal ...

As an animal lover I love his phrase - "The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated" ...
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Pity he only made the one film, he was really great in that ;)
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