Through the painting, I am portraying Dandi March, a march on foot led by Mahatma Gandhi. It was a major non violent action taken by India against the British Rule. It was not just an event but after the breaking of the salt law, Civil disobedience movement followed. The march had started on 12 March 1930 and the long 241 mile trek finally ended on April 5 1930. In India, distribution and selling of salt was a monopoly of British. Indians could not only produce and sell salt but also had to buy heavy
congruent” 1 . In India, nationalism developed as a concept during the Independence movement. 2 It was during this time that people gathered together and stood united for a common cause, to free their homeland from the Britishers. Nationalist movement in India before the arrival of Gandhi from S.Africa in 1915 was described by Judith Brown as "politics of studied limitations" and by Ravinder Kumar as "a movement representing the classes". 3 However, Gandhi was dedicated to the ideal of a united India
Sarojini Naidu stands first. Her poems are praised not only in India, but all over the world. Though she has written poems on religion, country, women 's freedom, etc., her poems on nature occupy the first place in her poetry. Even in sorrow, her nature poems glow with a touch of her suffering. Sarojini Naidu was a distinguished poet, renowned freedom fighter and one of the great orators of her time. She was famously known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India). Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian
people who have hatred against Gandhi from the roots of their heart and some who could never make up their mind. I feel that the speech is intended for those who respect Gandhiji and feel that all he has done is correct from all aspects. He explains why he thinks Gandhiji made some unforgivable blunders in the freedom movement for which he (Nathuram) committed this grave crime. He begins by saying that Hindus, at the turn of the 1920’s had
Gandhiji condemned child marriage, another important evil in our society. Child widows are the by-product of the evil of child marriage. Child marriage to him is a heinous sin and inhuman act. He opines, “The custom of child marriage is both a moral as well as a physical evil. For it undermines our morals and induces physical degeneration. By countenancing such customs, we recede from God, as well as swaraj.” (M. K. Gandhi, Harijan, June 1, 1928) According to him, child-marriage is both a moral as
from equal status with men in ancient times, to glimpses of inequality in the medieval period, to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers. Of them the most striking social reformer was Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi invoked the instances of ancient role models who were epitomes of Indian women hood like Draupadi, Savitri, Sita and
Freedom of Women: In ancient India, women have every right and freedom. Aditi, is mother of the gods (devamatha) and all twelve zodiacal spirits from whose cosmic matrix the heavenly bodies were born. She is mentioned nearly 80 times in the Rigveda. In contrast, the Puranas, such as the Shiva Purana and the Bhagavata Purana, suggest that Aditi is wife of sage Kashyap and gave birth to the Adityas such as Indra, Surya, and also Vamana. Ila, The earth (Bhumata) Saraswati Mytreyi In manusmriti, Manu
endeavour. Sarojini Naidu had a happy married life and had four children: Jayasurya, Padmaj, Randheer, and Leilamani. Sarojini Naidu joined the Indian national movement in the wake of partition of Bengal in 1905. She came into contact with Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Rabindranath Tagore, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Annie Besant, C.P.Rama Swami Iyer, Gandhiji and Jawaharlal Nehru. She awakened the women of India. She brought them out of the kitchen. She traveled from state to state, city after city and asked for
Bombay. Year after year the Indian National Congress gained strength and played a crucial role in creating awareness among people. The Nagpur session of the Indian national Congress declared attainment of Swaraj by peaceful and legitimate means. Under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi the Congress organisation turned into a nationwide mass organisation. In the year 1921 Gandhiji launched the civil disobedience movement which lasted for fourteen months. He called upon the people to give up titles and honours
the younger, in 1872 in a pamphlet ‘L’ ‘Hommefemme’ to designate the then emerging movement of women’s rights. An anti-masculinist movement of the women for the assertion of their individual rights, feminism is also called Aphraism after AphraBehn, a seventeenth century feminist and political activist. The history of Feminism is the history of the Feminism movement as well as its origins. The Feminist movement emerged in around the late 19th century. According to Maggie Humm and Rebecca Walker