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The Mahatma Teaches The World How To Conduct A Non-Violent Revolution! The Biography Of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Leader Of The Indian Independence Movement And Pioneer Of Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Who Led India And The World In Working For Civil Rights And Freedom - Three Spiritually Moving Hours Packed Into Five Politically Motivating Documentaries, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS In An Archival Quality 2 Disc All Regions Format DVD Set, MP4 Video Download Or USB Flash Drive! #Gandhi #MahatmaGandhi #MohandasGandhi #MohandasKaramchandGandhi #MohandasGandhi #GreatSouls #GreatMen #Satyagraha #CivilDisobedience #Nonviolence #NonviolentResistance #DirectAction #CivilDisobedienceMovement #IndianIndependence #IndianIndependenceMovement #Swaraj #SelfRule #SelfDetermination #BritishRaj #CivilRights #PartitionOfIndia #India #IndianHistory #HistoryOfIndia #ModernIndia #ModernIndianHistory #HistoryOfModernIndia #DVD #VideoDownload #MP4 #USBFlashDrive
* 12/16/19: Updated With GANDHI: END OF AN EMPIRE!
Contents:
BIOGRAPHY (CBS): MAHATMA GANDHI (22 Minutes, 1961, Black And White)
Mike Wallace narrates this excellent primer.
PERSPECTIVE ON GREATNESS: MAHATMA - THE GREAT SOUL (53 Minutes, 1953, Black And White)
Sam Jaffe narrates this penetrating insight into the soul of the man and the meaning of his work.
MEN OF OUR TIME: GANDHI (38 Minutes. 1978, Black And White)
Written and narrated by James Cameron, a journalist who knew and reported on Gandhi, this Granada TV production gives insight into the man himself as well as his political tactics and strategy.
PORTRAITS OF POWER: MAHATMA GANDHI - SOUL FORCE (23 Minutes, 1970, Color)
A provocative summation of the life of this twentieth century saint produced by the New York Times.
GANDHI : END OF AN EMPIRE (46 Minutes, 1993, Color)
An excellent installment of the THIS CENTURY series produced.by French Channel 80 in its syndicated English language version.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader and activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948) was born in 1869 Porbandar, India on what is now an Indian National Holiday known Gandhi Jayanti, and worldwise as the International Day Of Nonviolence. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi unified the masses for a common struggle against the British rule non violently, and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma (Sanskrit: "high-souled", "venerable") - applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa - is now used worldwide. In India, he is also called Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for father, papa) and Gandhi ji, and known as the Father of the Nation. Born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in coastal Gujarat, India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for various social causes and for achieving Swaraj or self-rule. Gandhi famously led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, upon many occasions, in both South Africa and India. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn hand-spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as a means of both self-purification and political protest. Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism, however, was challenged in the early 1940s by a new Muslim nationalism which was demanding a separate Muslim homeland carved out of India. Eventually, in August 1947, Britain granted independence, but the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. As many displaced Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs made their way to their new lands, religious violence broke out, especially in the Punjab and Bengal. Eschewing the official celebration of independence in Delhi, Gandhi visited the affected areas, attempting to provide solace. In the months following, he undertook several fasts unto death to stop religious violence. The last of these, undertaken on January 12, 1948 when he was 78, also had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan. Some Indians thought Gandhi was too accommodating. Among them was Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist, who assassinated Gandhi in the garden of his home in New Delhi on January 30, 1948 by firing three bullets into his chest. Captured along with many of his co-conspirators and collaborators, Godse and his co-conspirator Narayan Apte were tried, convicted and executed while many of their other accomplices were given prison sentences.