INFORMATION WORLD: ABOUT MAHATMA GANDH & HIS RARE PHOTOS

OCTOBER 2 nd IS THE DAY WHEN OUR FATHER OF THE NATION HAS BORN FOR HIS COUNTRY AND HIS PEOPLE!!!.ON THIS EVENT , I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE SOME DATA ABOUT THE LEGEND.......

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi(2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement.

HE IS OFFICIALLY HONOURED IN INDIA AS THE FATHER OF THE NATION; HIS BIRTHDAY,2 OCTOBER,IS COMMEMORATED AS GANDHI JAYANTHI, A NATIONAL HOLIDAY, AND WORLDWIDE AS THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF NON-VIOLENCE.

YOUNG MAHATMA :

MAHATMA WITH HIS WIFE KASTURBHAI :

After his return to India in 1915, he organized protests by peasants, farmers, and urban labourers concerning excessive land-tax and discrimination. After assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand women's rights, build religious and ethnic amity, end untouchability, and increase economic self-reliance

Later he campaigned against the British to Quit India. Gandhi spent a number of years in jail in both South Africa and India.

MAHATMA WITH NEHRU :

Mahatma Gandhi's Funeral-rare photos :

On Friday 30 January 1948, Gandhi woke up at his usual hour, 3:30 a.m. After the morning prayer he put the final touches to the new constitution for Congress which he had been unable to finish the previous night. The rest of the morning was spent answering letters. Someone mentioned the fact that despite his poor health he was working incessantly. 'Tomorrow', he explained, 'I may not be here'. Gandhi would not permit those who attended the prayer meetings: 'If I have to die I should like to die at the prayer meeting. You are wrong in believing that you can protect me from harm. God is my protector.' Mahatma Gandhi's body lay on the pyre with his head to the north. In that position Buddha met his end. At 4:45 p.m., Ramdas, the third son of the Mahatma, set fire to the funeral pyre. The logs burst into flames. The vast assemblage groaned. Women wailed; men wept. The wood crackled and seethed and the flames united into a single fire. Now there was silence. Gandhi's body was being reduced to ashes and cinders. A nation's father was dead. The information and any attached documents contained in this message may be confidential and/or legally privileged.