Capsule Note-And Then Gandhi

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  [After the First World War, India suffered from poverty, unemployment, British oppression, fear, and hopelessness.
• At this difficult time, Mahatma Gandhi entered Indian politics like a breath of fresh air, a beam of light, and a strong wind.
• Gandhi spoke for the common people, especially peasants and workers, and opposed their exploitation.
• His main teachings were fearlessness, truth, action, and the welfare of the people.
• Abhaya means freedom from fear.
• Gandhi asked people not to fear the army, the police, officials, prison, landlords, moneylenders, unemployment, or hunger.
• His message removed fear and gave people courage, confidence, and self-respect.
• Gandhi’s call to action had two aims: to fight against British rule and to fight against social evils.
• His important aims were freedom, peaceful struggle, national unity, the upliftment of the depressed classes, and the removal of untouchability.
• Gandhi attacked the main supports of British rule: fear, prestige, and public cooperation.
• He encouraged simple living, the rejection of British titles, and the adoption of new social values.
• Gandhi sent leaders to villages, where they understood the poverty, hunger, and problems of the common people.
• Gandhi dreamed of an India with equality, communal harmony, no untouchability, equal rights for women, and a voice for the poor.
• He believed that Indian culture is a fusion of many cultures and that Indians should welcome other cultures without losing their own roots.
• Gandhi stood for equality, freedom, and the dignity of every person.
• He changed fear into courage, hopelessness into hope, and inaction into action.
• Nehru calls this change a vast psychological revolution.
• Gandhi transformed the minds of Indians by giving them fearlessness, truth, courage, self-respect, and hope.]

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