How Did Gandhi Influence Society

Mohandas Gandhi was a nationalist Indian leader that waged a campaign of nonviolence against the colonial British government that took over India in order to help achieve its’ independence. Mohandas Gandhi was among the greatest political and social reformers of recent times, he is best remembered for his later campaigns to overthrow British rule in India, which led to India’s independence in 1947. He was born in the second day of October in 1869 Gandhi placed himself at the heart of the world-encircling empire ruling India. He saw all aspects of human life as a single unity that is the body, spirit, and mind are connected with one another and cannot be separated. He earned the title of “Mahatma” a Hindi word that means “great soul” due to …show more content…
At the time, India did not contained a central government, which attracted foreign countries to place their trading bases. The British East India Company took control of the country and also established the Raj. They contained an elaborate hierarchy of officials that was established to enforce its rule, the monarchy was supported by thousands of civil servants. The British did not deliberately set out to make India’s people change their existing ways of life, however their main focus was on the promotion of trade, perhaps they took away land of landlords taking advantage that they had more power. They manufactured goods into the country, ruining Indian industries because they preferred to export its raw materials to England, to be manufactured there and then returned as finished goods for Indians to buy. Indian cotton fed the huge textile mills of Lancashire and its tea quenched the thirst of the British. In this way England gained huge wealth and employment from its Indian empire, while leaving Indian industry relatively underdeveloped, with few resources, Indians had limited power over their own local affairs and had no role in central government. The British took a tactic of divide and …show more content…
The new government immediately announced that it sought an early realization of self-government in India. India finally achieved its independence from England in August 1947. Mountbatten Plan calls for the partition of India into the country as a liberation, dividing the it into two dominions, India and Pakistan. Gandhi’s proposal’s helped the country achieve independence, since his hopes and also his campaigns helped India.

In conclusion, Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi was a social and political reformer whose career was marked by non-violence, compassion and tolerance. His role in India’s independence struggle provides more evidence of his saintliness. His non-violent movements during Satyagraha protests and willingness to fast the death and to end violence mark him out as somebody important due to his sacrifices and also his disobediences against the government. He would use only moral means to achieve his aims, and he was a nationalist person that did everything for his