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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (–)
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi[c] (2&#;October &#;&#; 30&#;January )[2] was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (from Sanskrit, meaning great-souled, or venerable), first applied to him in South Africa in , is now used throughout the world.[3]
Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, Gandhi trained in the lag at the Inner Temple in London and was called to the bar at the age of After two uncertain years in India, where he was unable to start a successful law practice, Gandhi moved to South Africa in to företräda an Indian merchant in a lawsuit. He went on to live in South Africa for 21
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We often take for granted the idea of solidarity between South Asian and African American communities today. On the contrary, it required a significant amount of radical thought – academic, literary, and imaginative – to create. In the s, Afro-Asian solidarity was very far from axiomatic. Contemporaneous biological race theory suggested that South Asians were related to whites by virtue of their shared “Aryan” heritage; some Indians in the American South used this to claim their “biological whiteness” in order to gain U.S. citizenship before Many South Asian intellectuals could admit that anti-Black racism in the U.S. was a problem but could not admit that, similarly, caste oppression in South Asia was unjust. Nevertheless, a small group of South Asian and Black intellectuals in the s argued for the necessity of Afro-Asian solidarity by highlighting how the injustices of imperialism and racism share similar logics of white supremacy.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Satyagraha
Influenced by the Hindu religious book, the Bhagavad Gita, Gandhi wanted to purify his life by following the concepts of aparigraha (non-possession) and samabhava (equability). A friend gave him the book, Unto This Last, by John Ruskin; Gandhi became excited about the ideals proffered by Ruskin. The book inspired Gandhi to establish a communal living community called Phoenix Settlement just outside of Durban in June The Settlement was an experiment in communal living, a way to eliminate one's needless possessions and to live in a society with full equality. Gandhi moved his newspaper, the Indian Opinion, established in June , and its workers to the Phoenix Settlement as well as his own family a bit later. Besides a building for the press, each community member was allotted three acres of land on which to build a dwelling made of corrugated iron. In addition to farming, all members of the community were to be trained