Gandi the peaceful
... a schedule. While Gandhi was waiting to start classes he lived with a family in England where he learned about English culture and the English language. Gandhi only faced one problem, lack of food. Due to being a vegetarian the family wasn’t sure what to feed him and he felt it rude to ask for more food. Gandhi throughout his time in London cut the luxuries of life nearly completely out of his life. He cook all his own food, used no seasonings, only took the bus when needed and lived in a very modest apartment. After Finishing school in England Gandhi returned home then went to South Africa to work on a case. While in South Africa he was faced with many injustices and insults by the racial white colonialists. Mahatma Gandhi responded to this by launching a movement for equal rights in South Africa. As the “command center” of his movement he started the “Tolstoy Farm and The Phoenix Ashram.” He won this movement and from it white settlers in South Africa started importing unemployed Indians and signing them as indentured servants for five year contracts. The method non-violent method of protesting Gandhi used was called Satyagraha. Gandhi later moved back to India to live with his wife and kids. Gandhi’s anti-British movement started at a ceremonial opening for the Hindu University Central College located in Benares. Gandhi told the people that were present to leave the favored British jobs and take up jobs in villages. Gandhi later made a trip to the foothills of the Himalayas to get justice for the tenant farmers. While on this quest he was arrest for threatening the public peace. He was later released and the charges were dropped. Gandhi also helped lead a strike of mill workers for a higher wage and to keep the strike peaceful. Through this strike Gandhi had his first public fast which happened to work. On April 6, 1919 Gandhi started the Rowlett Satyagraha which opposed Rowlett Act. The Rowlett Satyagraha contained fasting, prayer services and the breaking of civil laws. The Rowlett Satyagraha ended after Jallianwalla Bagh massacre. Gandhi was elected the sole executive officer of the Indian congress, in which he was told no one below him would act without his word. Gandhi choose Bardoli as a place for a mass civil disobedience. He later called off t...