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Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi was a British-Indian leader and non-violence activist who became the national and spiritual leader of India.

Person

  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  • Porbandar, Brits-Indië Oct. 2, 1869
  • New Delhi, India Jan. 30, 1948

Mahatma Gandhi was a British-Indian leader who studied law in London and fought for the civil rights of Indians in South Africa before 1915. Gandhi was a Hindu who worked to overcome the conflicts between his religious group and the Muslims.[1]

The newspapers announced in February 1943 that Gandhi was going on a three-week hunger strike.[2] On 3 March, he started eating again. He started with orange juice.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Wikipedia: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
  2. ^ “Ghandi in hongerstaking”, Nieuws van den Dag, 11 February 1943; Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 27 February 1943, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  3. ^ “Ghandi’s vasten ten einde”, Nieuws van den Dag, 4 March 1943; Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 4 March 1943, in The Collected Works.