Mahatma Gandhi's Achievements

Mahatma Gandhi is a very important person in the history of India as well as the history of the world. Gandhi is known for a lot of things, his greatest achievement was gaining India’s Independence from The British Empire and his achievements made the people of the world give him his own holiday. He was a beacon of hope for people all over the world including important people in U.S. history like Martin Luther King Jr.

During the time of Mahatma Gandhi he lived a very interesting life. He was born October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India. Growing up he worshiped Vishnu the Hindu god. Vishnu supported non-violence, fasting, meditation, and vegetarianism. Also growing up he was not a very outstanding student he was quite average in his studies and

Some of these were that he gained India’s Independence from The British and fought against racial unfairness. He also led a campaign call the Satyagraha Campaign which lead to the Indian Relief Act, which removed the tax on Indians who had not removed their indentures. And at Champaran in India he won the first the first civil disobedience battle. Another accomplishment was him using his non-violent ways to lead tax revolts, one of his most famous one was at kheda in 1918. This tax revolt was a major factor in achieving Indian independence. Another major factor in gaining independence was the Non-cooperation movement in 1920. This movement resisted British rule in nonviolent ways, and example of this would be getting hundreds of people and marching around the cities in protest and getting other people to join. The largest march in this movement was the Salt March of 1930 and it was led by Gandhi. It was a distance of 240 miles was marched and nearly 60,000 people had participated in the march. After many of these nonviolent marches India was finally given its freedom in One man was able to start all of this, it’s amazing what he was able to achieve in his lifetime and everyone around the world is inspired by him and his

Jayanti means victory and they are celebrating all of Gandhi’s achievements including gaining India’s independence. The date celebrated is the same date of Gandhi’s birthday, October 2. On that day most of the stores and local businesses are close or open for a few hours. So people people can go celebrate Gandhi. Through the course of the day prayers services are held throughout India in sacred places, one of the most popular places is outside of where Gandhi used to live. Also people have art and writing competitions, watch films of Gandhi and his accomplishments, sing Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram, which was apparently gandhi’s favorite song, and finally they give out awards to people who have been demonstrating a nonviolent way of life. The people of India thank Gandhi for everything he 's done for them and the least they can do is dedicate a day to him and celebrate what he’s done and some people even try to live like him in his non violent ways