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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Also known as Mahatma Gandhi

Today I am going to talk to you about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and what changes he has made to our world and how they had a lasting impact until today.

Mahatma Gandhi was also into to politics. In fact, the make reason he is important to us today, is related to politics. Mahatma Gandhi created many “moments” during his time period. These “moments” were for people to understand the importance of independence in India. ‘Moments” were created by a group of people, but Mahatma Gandhi was always there leader. In these “moments” a group (including Gandhi) tries to protest for the independence of India and of course this protesting contains no violence. Some of the most important moments are Salt March in the year 1930 and also Leave India, which was in the year 1942.

Mahatma Gandhi was a really good at being open-minded. I can say this because he has an understanding and appreciati﻿on for there own culture. Mahatma Gandhi can also be proved open-minded because he wanted to change India’s past history. I can relate this to humanities class because every day I see a famous quote written by Gandhi “Be the change you want to see in the world”, this means that you should try being the change you want to see in the world and that is what Mahatma Gandhi did. If you want to be open-minded, then you must be willing to grow from the experiences you had in the past. Gandhi was always learning from his past and he applied all that knowledge to his next protesting “moment”. The best thing about being open-minded, it that no matter what happens you, are always calm. Gandhi shows that by not shedding a single drop of blood during any of his “moments”. Gandhi, as a change maker had a lasting impact on millions of people.

One of the most important things he did was for his country and society. During Gandhi’s time period, there were 4 main classes in India. They were Brahmin, warriors, traders and the untouchables. The untouchable were the lowest group of society because they used to do low quality jobs. What Gandhi did was that he bought the untouchables to the main stream of society. He went and talked to the people about every one having equal civil rights. Another thing that he did was, he taught people how to live as a vegetarian and lead a simple life. This had a huge impact on India because he was the person who encouraged the people during that time to be vegetarian and that is why today most of India is vegetarian. The way he led a simple was by finding the difference between want and need.

Amazing facts on Gandhi:
 * leader of India and the Indian independence movement
 * Won India’s independence, in a true positive non-violence manner.
 * He studied law in London between 1888 and 1891 and set sail to South Africa in 1893 where he opened his own law office.
 * He influenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and millions of other people.
 * On 30 January 1948, Gandhi was shot and killed on the grounds of the Birla Bhavan (Birla House) in New Delhi.
 * Gandhi helped free India from Britain. He did this through a various amount of protests and other non violent interactions. He was imprisoned for 7 years from his political views.
 * A video on Gandhi-

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