Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), the Mahatma, the "great-souled one," of Hinduism and the statesman-pacifist guru if India's struggle for political liberation, developed an intriguing and far-reaching philosophy of community. That philosophy, put into practice as the entire world watched, was uniquely bound up with his views about the ashram, a communal retreat, and his commitment to Satyagraha, nonviolent disobedience to unjust laws and unfair social and political practices. Both satyagraha and the …
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…referred to as the Gandhian movement of Satyagraha. Works Cited Ackerman, peter. A Force More Powerful. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Frady, Marshall. Martin Luther King. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Great People of the 20the Century. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Iyer, Raghavan N. The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Michelene, Ishay R. The Human Rights Reader. N.p.: n.p., n.d.