(UH7) GANDHI
Artist – Chandan Pramanik, India
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Artist – Chandan Pramanik, India
Water Color
(UH7) GANDHI
Artist – Chandan Pramanik, India
Water Color
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) introduced nonviolent, civil disobedience, and movements for civil rights to inspire and seek freedom. Born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in Gujarat, India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London.
Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa and later, upon returning back to India in 1915, he set about organizing peasants, farmers, and urban laborers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination.
Gandhi's vision of an independent India was based on religious pluralism, however, and was challenged in the early 1940s by a new Muslim nationalism which demanded a separate Muslim homeland carved out of India. Eventually, in August 1947, Britain granted independence partitioning India into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and Muslim Pakistan.
Further comments regarding Hinduism
Hinduism, the third largest religion in the world, after Christianity and Islam, has no attributed founder, synthesizing between 500 BCE and 300CE, making it the probable oldest religion in the world. While there are adherents all over the world, it is practiced, primarily, in Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. Proponents refer to it as the “eternal way”. Primary values/beliefs include Dharma (ethics/duties), Artha (prosperity/work), Kama (desires/passions), and Moksha (liberation/freedom from the cycle of death, and rebirth/salvation). They also include karma (action, intent/consequences), Saṃsāra (cycle of death and rebirth), and various yogas (paths or practices to attain Moksha). Hinduism prescribes the eternal duties, such as honesty, refraining from injuring living beings (ahimsa), patience, forbearance, self-restraint, and compassion, among others. The four largest denominations of Hinduism are the Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism and Smartism.
Artist – Chandan Pramanik, India
Water Color
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) introduced nonviolent, civil disobedience, and movements for civil rights to inspire and seek freedom. Born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in Gujarat, India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London.
Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa and later, upon returning back to India in 1915, he set about organizing peasants, farmers, and urban laborers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination.
Gandhi's vision of an independent India was based on religious pluralism, however, and was challenged in the early 1940s by a new Muslim nationalism which demanded a separate Muslim homeland carved out of India. Eventually, in August 1947, Britain granted independence partitioning India into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and Muslim Pakistan.
Further comments regarding Hinduism
Hinduism, the third largest religion in the world, after Christianity and Islam, has no attributed founder, synthesizing between 500 BCE and 300CE, making it the probable oldest religion in the world. While there are adherents all over the world, it is practiced, primarily, in Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. Proponents refer to it as the “eternal way”. Primary values/beliefs include Dharma (ethics/duties), Artha (prosperity/work), Kama (desires/passions), and Moksha (liberation/freedom from the cycle of death, and rebirth/salvation). They also include karma (action, intent/consequences), Saṃsāra (cycle of death and rebirth), and various yogas (paths or practices to attain Moksha). Hinduism prescribes the eternal duties, such as honesty, refraining from injuring living beings (ahimsa), patience, forbearance, self-restraint, and compassion, among others. The four largest denominations of Hinduism are the Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism and Smartism.
