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It offered evidence of inter-communal harmony in joint Rowlatt satyagraha demonstration rallies, raising Gandhi's stature as the political leader to the British. Read more.

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ISSN X. Bringing anti-colonial nationalism to the common Indians, Gandhi led them in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the km mi Dandi Salt March in and in calling for the British to quit India in Archived from the original on 17 August His image also appears on paper currency of all denominations issued by Reserve Bank of India , except for the one rupee note.

BBC News. Gandhi also wrote letters almost every day to individuals and newspapers. Gandhi's first major achievement was in when he led the Champaran and Kheda agitations of Bihar and Gujarat. Writing many years later, Gandhi described with regret the lustful feelings he felt for his young bride: "Even at school I used to think of her, and the thought of nightfall and our subsequent meeting was ever haunting me.

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Government Communication and Information System. Immediately upon arriving in South Africa, Gandhi faced discrimination due to his skin colour and heritage. The sheer vagueness and contradictions recurrent throughout his writing made it easier to accept him as a saint than to fathom the challenge posed by his demanding beliefs. Satya truth , ahimsa nonviolence , brahmacharya celibacy , asteya non-stealing , and aparigraha non-attachment.

Retrieved 21 July On 1 January , a Thai visitor comes and compliments him on India's independence. Gandhi did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize , although he was nominated five times between and , including the first-ever nomination by the American Friends Service Committee , [ ] though Gandhi made the short list only twice, in and Minorities and the State in Africa.

Retrieved 25 January Archived from the original on 31 December Retrieved 31 August Archived from the original on 28 May Retrieved 4 June Retrieved 5 January Allen Lane. Rabindranath Tagore heavily criticized Gandhi at the time in private letters Gandhi and Non-Violence. During India's nationalist movement and in several decades immediately after, he was also commonly called Bapu , an endearment roughly meaning "father".

The attack on Kashmur is cited as a reason for this. Univ of California Press. Retrieved 24 October