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GANDHI JI

1. Gandhiji was born on October 2 1869

2. Gandhiji went to South Africa to practice law in in 1893

3. Gandhiji's first Satyagraha experimented was in South Africa 1906, September to protest against the Asiatic Ordinance issued against the Indians in Transval

4. Gandhiji's first imprisonment in 1908 at Johannesberg in South Africa

5. Gandhiji was humiliated and ousted at Peter Marits Burg Railway Station in SouthAfrica

6. Gandhiji started Tolstoy Farm (SouthAfrica) in 1910

7. Gandhiji started the Phoenix Settlement at Durban in South Africa

8. Gandhiji started Indian opinion (1904) a newspaper in SouthAfrica

9.Gandhiji returned to India from South Africa on 9th January 1915 observed as Pravasi Bharatiya Divas

10. Gandhiji’s first satyagraha in India was for the right of Indigo workers in Champaran in 1917

11. Gandhiji’s first fast was In Ahmadabad

12. Jallianwalabagh Massacre (1919) causes Gandhiji to abandoned his title Kaiser-I-Hind?

13. Mahatma Gandhi started weeklies named Young India and Navjeevan

14. The only Congress session presided over by Gandhiji was at Belgaum in 1924

15. Mahatma Gandhi started All India HarijanSamaj in 1932

16.Gandhiji started the weekly Harijan in 1933

17.Winston Churchill called Gandhiji as “Half naked Seditious Fakir”

18.Mahatma Gandhi gave the name ‘Gurudev’ to Tagore

19.Tagore called Gandhiji as ‘Mahatma’

20.Gopal Krishna Gokhale was the political guru of Gandhiji

21.Leo Tolstoy was considered as spiritual guru of Gandhiji

22.Gandhiji called Cripps's Mission (1942) as 'Post Dated Cheque'

23.Mahatma Gandhi gave Baba Amta the title 'Abhay Sadak'

24.1915 - 1948 considered as 'Gandhian Era' in Indian Independence Freedom struggle

25.January 30 ,1948 Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by NadhuramVinayak Godse 13 minute.