To analyze his movie, I have to watch three or four times. The film Gandhi begins at the end, on the other hand, it shows Gandhi being shot by an assassin at public events. He was killed because of the spilt of Hindu and Muslims in Pakistan and India. Making it clear that when Gandhi died it was a national tragedy. The Film goes back and shows Gandhi as a young attorney in South Africa. He was riding on a train and although he possesses a first class ticket, he is ordered to go to last class sit because of his status. He refuses to give up his first class seat and he was thrown by the conductor. After having success in South Africa, he returned to India and he was greeted as a national hero. He tries to bring the same kind of change to the people there, but the British Authority tries to stop him and his followers form creating a more equal Society. British people that are in the government were the nicest dressed and it was all format outfit, Gandhi and his people were forced by British people and they were dominated because of the way they were their clothes. Gandhi and his followers make their own cloth in a very simple ways, and burn all cloths that were made or warren by British people. These are some accomplished that he did to become a national hero of…
Mohandas Gandhi launched a policy of nonviolent noncooperation against the British following the Massacre at Amritsar in 1919 (Boss, 2012). He used his moral outrage guided by reason to effect change in the cultural norms of India and ultimately helped India gain independence in 1947. Gandhi’s efforts have greatly impacted social and political reform, and have influenced later civil rights movements.…
Mohandas k Gandhi was a skilled mediator and powerful spokesman for justice whom he effectively used in his “Economic and Moral Progress” speech. Gandhi uses various appeals from religion and scriptural traditions to persuade his audience on the matters that occurred in India. With references to Indi’s history and the Bible, Gandhi uses logos in persuading, Ethos in referring, and pathos in appealing.…
The film covers Gandhi's life from his arrival in South Africa in 1893, through to his assassination in Delhi in 1948, and in telling the Mahatma's own story, it tells the tale of India's struggle for freedom from colonial rule from 1915 onward. The story is told by expanding on a selection of key events in his life, a series of individual tableaux spread over 55 years.…
In 1893, Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling in a first class compartment. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After numerous arrests and the unwanted attention of the world, the government finally relents by recognizing rights for Indians, though not for the native blacks of South Africa. After this victory, Gandhi is invited back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India's independence from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent non-cooperation campaign of unprecedented scale, coordinating millions of Indians nationwide. There are some setbacks, such as violence against the protesters and Gandhi's occasional imprisonment. Nevertheless, the campaign generates great attention, and Britain faces intense public pressure. Too weak from World War II to continue enforcing its will in India, Britain finally grants India's independence. Indians celebrate this victory, but their troubles are far from over. Religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims erupt into nation-wide violence. Gandhi declares a hunger strike, saying he will not eat until the fighting stops. The fighting does stop eventually, but the country is divided. It is decided that the northwest area of India, and eastern part of India (current day Bangladesh), both places where Muslims are in the majority, will become a new country called Pakistan (West and East Pakistan respectively). It is hoped that by encouraging the Muslims to live in a separate country, violence will abate. Gandhi is opposed to the idea, and is even willing to allow Muhammad Ali Jinnah to become the first prime minister of India, but the Partition of India is carried out nevertheless. Gandhi spends his last days trying to bring…
There have been many individuals throughout history that have left an indelible impact on their people and the world, but few could rival the difference that Mohandas Gandhi made. Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in the British Common Wealth of India. He spent his youth witnessing the injustices that the English purveyed on the Indian people; something that eventually helped him to decide to become a barrister. Shortly after passing the bar, Gandhi was offered a case in South Africa that would require him to live in that country for about 1 year and he readily accepted. Once arriving in South Africa, he almost immediately experienced the prejudice that Indians living there had been enduring. The turning point for him came when he purchased a first class train ticket but was asked to move to the 3rd class coach, simply because he was Indian. When he quietly refused, he was physically thrown from the train. It was at that point that he decided to stay in South Africa to fight discrimination and what had been planned as a 1 year stay turned into 20 years. During that time he created, taught and practiced the concept of satyagraha, a non-violent way of protesting against injustices. (Rosenberg, n.d.) Gandhi believed that freedom could not be taken but must be given willingly and that this concept helped both the oppressor and the oppressed recognize the humanity in each other. The idea of satyagraha would be used by many great civil rights leaders as a way to advance their causes. Because of this, it remains Gahndhi’s greatest contribution to political change.…
Gandhi, whom was also western educated, led India’s nationalist movement through non-violence organizations and protests. Murphy’s interpretation of Gandhi’s success were “He simply used traditional methods and symbols to appeal to the Indian people, most of whom were not intellectuals, giving them a sense of pride in their…
GANDHI the movie is, above all, meant for entertainment. However, the movie is historically correct save for a few exceptions; but it is clear why Richard Attenborough (GANDHI's director) has made these errors.…
I’m not saying that it was easy to decide what film to analyse. It took me quite long time to choose. I wanted something extraordinary. I wanted a film that is not only fun to watch and makes think about the raised problem, but also about cultural and ideological meaning. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi once said: "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." These words definitely had an effect on the film selection. It just an expression, but it’s already makes feel optimistic and inspires. Gandhi – one of the brightest XXa. persons, who left unforgettable footprints in India and in all world history. So I decided to choose the film “Gandhi” (producer Richard Attenborough) for a detailed analysis.…
in class, Gandhi: His Life and Message, by Louis Fischer is an eye opener to whom…
After the South African success Gandhi was invited back to India, where he was celebrated as a national hero, and he was urged to take up the fight for the Indian independence. To be able to do so, he first travelled across India to get to know the life of the Indian peasants. He saw that the peasants, who were ruled by the British landlords, have nothing to eat and they were suffering. The peasantry was forced to grow indigo but its demand was declining and they were forced to sell it to the planters on a fix prise which led to famine. With Gandhi’s help they became free to grow crops of their own choice, got a rebate on rents paid, they also had a commission, part Indian, to hear grievances.…
“The Doctor and the Saint” is Arundhati Roy’s introduction to Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste. This introduction allows the readers to understand the history that caused the production of the speech Annihilation of Caste, which was prepared by Ambedkar for The Annual Conference of the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal of Lahore, but never delivered due to the cancellation of the Conference by the Reception Committee. This reading is about the debate between two men, B.R. Ambedkar, a Dalit or Untouchable, and Mahatma Gandhi, a Vaishya born to a family of privileged caste Hindus. These two men had very different opinions and interests; however, they were still loved and praised by their followers. Dr. Ambedkar would always challenge Gandhi, not only politically, but morally as well. Gandhi was deified by…
Mahatma Gandhi was an amazing and hugely influential figure in history. He is renowned for his beliefs and teachings in regards to civil rights, religion, education, non-violence, and the list goes on. In this analysis I will attempt to relate Gandhi’s principles to my own, grounded in the faith and teachings of Jesus Christ. In doing so I will discuss three over-arching topics specifically: social issues, money/career, and the nature of God.…
Waiting for the Mahatma (1955) is perhaps the most controversial novel of R. K. Narayan. Apart from its artistic merits and demerits (which are considerable), many Indian readers of the novel have felt dissatisfied with it and found it difficult to warm up to it particularly because of the way the Mahatma is portrayed in it. Non-Indian readers however have more or less favourably reacted to it, while being alive to its artistic lapses. An extreme instance is H. M. Williams who regards it as one of the two “most mature novels” of Narayan (Studies in Modern Indian Fiction in English. Vol. I, Writers Workshop, Calcutta. p. 86). On page 123 of his My Dateless Diary Narayan has recorded that a young American novelist, to whom he had given this novel to read, remarked that “we don’t learn anything about Mahatma Gandhi from it,” a view many Indian readers would perhaps readily endorse. For us Indians the mere mention of Gandhi’s name conjures up the vision of a “man of God” who “trod on earth”, as Nehru described him in one of his speeches after Gandhi’s death. He was acclaimed a Mahatma and worshipped as an Avatar. Exasperated by Narayan’s handling of Gandhi in WFM my teacher Prof. C. D. Narasimhaiah had even suggested that Narayan would have done well to withdraw it from circulation (The Swan and the Eagle. Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Simla. 1969. p. 155).…
Whatever Gandhi did for humanity he didn’t think it was enough. “To serve is my religion” he said. When the Boer War started in 1899, Gandhi had sympathy with the Boers, but he stayed on the side of the British. He got together 1100 Indians to start a British ambulance corps. In India, in 1904, Gandhi founded an Indian newspaper called the Indian Opinion. In 1906 when the Zulus rebelled, Gandhi formed another ambulance corps. In 1906 he also took a vow of celibacy. On July 1907, Indians picketed the offices at which they were supposed to register and when only about 500 of the 13,000 Indians complied with the new registration law the authorities decided to act. The authorities arrested leaders of the Satyagraha Movement, which included Gandhi. Gandhi’s first time in jail was short. Gandhi’s civil disobedience campaign challenged legislation barring Indian immigration. He went to jail and served food to the other prisoners. He was set free in December 1908. On July 1914, England entered World War I and Gandhi again offered to start an ambulance corps, but Indians opposed it.…