“Anger is the biggest strength of Man when it is taken positively”

1. “Anger is the biggest strength of Man when it is taken positively”

3. Gandhi Elton Pan Gabriel Leow Liu Siyu Donovan Goh

4. “Man of the Year” "Person of the Century"

5. Introduction to Gandhi • Born on the 2nd of October 1869 and passed away on the 30th of January 1948 • Fought for the civil rights of Indian immigrants in South Africa • Fought for the liberation of India from British colonial rule • His entire family follows a branch of Hinduism

6. Background knowledge • From the beginning of the 17th century, The British started their occupation over India • Indian opposition to colonial rule started in the early 20th Century

7. Timeline of what had happened • 1888: Sails to England to study law at the University College in London • 1891: Admitted to the British bar • 1891: Became a barrister • 1893: Employed to be a legal advisor in Durban • 1893: Indians were brought to South Africa to labour on sugar estates

8. Start of Gandhi’s campaigning

9. Timeline of what had happened • 1906: Gandhi began campaigning against laws prohibiting black South Africans • Lead the Indians in demonstrations • Organise protests • 1914: Made a reform package – South Africa government accepted it

10. Timeline of what had happened • 1915: Became involved in the home rule movement • 1915: He established an ashram on the banks of the Sabarmati River near Ahmadabad, the capital of Gujarat • 1917: The British Parliament announces that Indians will be allowed greater participation in the colonial administration

11. Timeline of what had happened • 1919: The Satyagraha movement spread through India • 1920: Gandhi urged Indians to boycott British institutions and products • 1920: Gandhi got arrested

12. Timeline of what had happened • 1930: Gandhi proclaims a new campaign – civil disobedience • 1930: Gandhi was jailed • 1934: Gandhi formally resigned from politics and is replaced as leader of the Congress

13. Timeline of what had happened • 1942: Gandhi fought for the independence of India • 1947: India gains their independence from the British

14. Why do we admire Gandhi?

15. Non-violence &Non-cooperation • As weapons against the British • Gandhi : resignation..no assembly…no British edu…boycott…no British bank…. No EVERYTHING from British !!!!

16. Salt March • Salt →British • Tax • Boil sea waterto get salt • 60 yrs old, but on the street and demonstrated • Finally released , partial success

17. Determination • Apastia • Asceticism

18. Falling of a legend

19. Assassination • Jan 30th 1948，79 • Praying • Killed by ultra-Rightist

20. Weaknesses?

21. Gandhi is a Great Leader but not a Good Leader.

22. Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

23. Addressed Hitler as “my friend” • Envisioned Nazism as a non-violent struggle aimed at convincing rather than destroying

24. Thank You