gandhi

He founded Tolstoy Farm in 1910 near Johannesburg which was a cooperative colony for Indians. Indians revered to him as a saint and started calling him Mahatma, which means “great soul. After the war he returned to his campaign for Indian rights. He refused earthly possessions, he wore the loincloth and shawl of the lowliest Indian and subsisted on vegetables, fruit juices, and goat's milk. Gandhi got his insaparation from a Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and also the teachings of Christ and to the 19th century American writer Henry David Thoreau, especially to Thoreau’s famous essay “Civil Disobedience. He lived a spiritual and ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and meditation. With his and Idia’s practice of noneviolonce Gandhi belived that Britain would eventrually consider that violence was useless and would leave India. ” During the Boer War he organized an ambulance corps for the British army and commanded a Red Cross unit. And he fought for elementary rights for Indians.

Gandhi became the international symbol of a free India. ” Gandhi's belif of nonviolence, known as ahimsa “noninjury”, was the expression of a way of life implicit in the Hindu religion. In 1914 the government of South Africa gave in to some of his demands including recognition of Indian marriages and abolition of the poll tax. Gandhi then returned to India where he continued his civil rights movement.