Rishabh chadha biography of mahatma
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Ramachandra Guha's column: How Mahatma Gandhi's martyrdom saved India
On January 31, 1948, a former Indian Civil Service officer named Malcolm älskling, then living in retirement in London, wrote in his diary: 'Gandhi was assassinated yesterday. …Very difficult to säga what will happen, but it fryst vatten as if a fartyg has lost its keel. Further disintegration seems inevitable, and what happens to the 40 million Muslims left in India now, now that they have lost their chief protector? …I wonder if sooner or later we will have to go back.'
By the standards of his tribe älskling was an extremely enlightened man. While serving in the Punjab he had been a sensitive administrator, sympathetic to Indian aspirations. But the horrors of Partition made him re-think his ideas. Now, with the murder of Gandhi, he was even contemplating the British returning to take charge of what seemed to be a forever unruly sub-continent.
Darling's fears were widely shared. Other Western observers thought that Indi
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Interactive Map
Sites of memory related to
serious human
rights violations
Site
Theme: Political persecution
Theme: Political persecution
Purpose of Memory
Remembrance of the massacre of Jallianwala Bagh and its victims.
Institutional Designation
Jallianwala Bagh
Date of creation / identification / declaration
1961
Public Access
Free
Location description
Jallianwala Bagh is a park located in the city of Amristar, where on April 16, 1919, a group of British soldiers carried out a massacre by shooting against a crowd gathered there. The site consists of a rectangular garden surrounded by buildings that can be accessed through a narrow path which houses a museum, a gallery and a series of commemorative structures. The Amar Jyoti flame remains lit in an arched meditation area, where Vande Mataram, the emblematic phrase of the National Anthem of India, has been engraved. In the Wall of Martyrs, the holes
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Many Gandhis on our screens
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhiji. Mahatma. Bapu. One man, so many lives!
Any mention of Gandhi makes us think of Richard Attenborough’s definitive 1982 biopic that covered Gandhi’s life from 1893 to 1948. These 55 years depicted are strewn with abiding images: Gandhi floating away his chaddar in the river, for a shivering woman to cover herself with; his dignified grieving when he loses his wife; his determination as he sets out on the Dandi march; his insistence on not resorting to violence in the face of lathi charge; Gandhi practising Islam and Christianity rituals as lessons in tolerance.
One of the earliest films on Gandhi was an American feature documentary, titled Mahatma Gandhi: 20th Century Prophet, made in 1953. Another documentary, made in 1968, covered every decade of his existence. But a better insight was provided by Shyam Benegal’s The Making of a Mahatma/ Mohan Se Mahatma Tak (1996). Based on Fatima Meer’s Apprenticeship