Gandhi
Boer War
1899-1902- won by British not Dutch- bad for Indians in SA- Smuts wanted to eradicate Asians
Rowlatt Acts
1919- no trials
Stays in SA for how long
21 years- becomes successful leader and lawyer
Smuts response
3 pound tax will not be lifted
favorite religious book
Bhagavad Gita- sacred book of Hindus
Marriages
Cape Colony Supreme Court rules only Christian marriages legal
violence where
Chaauri Chaura, angry mob kills police, Gandhi calls off civil disobedience, is sent to prison for 6 years
1908 Indians at Hamidia Mosque
burn registrations
Gokhale
comes to SA to survey scene, asks Ghandi for loyal members, asks SA gov to lift immigration ban and abolish taxes for indentured laborers
After WWI
conditions for Indians don't improve
Training
Gandhi and other Indians train themselves as nurses, gov refused, later Indian Ambulance Corps allowed
Older brother is in line to be prime minister of hometown, what happens?
Gandhi persuades agent to let his brother be prime minister but is pushed out
has male child
Harilal
Gandhi's first book
Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule- thoughts on India allowing oppressors to be successful
Desirelessness
Hindu renunciation
Marries who through arranged marriage
Kasturbai, at 12
returns to India, shouts of
Mahatmaji
Farm
decides to settle on farm and live simply, Phoenix Farm, continues law practice
Ghandi born
Porbandar, town on Kathiawar Peninsula in Western India
failed as a lawyer where
Rajkot and Bombay
Made his wife
do chores with him instead of making untouchables do it
goes where
South Africa for a year as a lawyer
career
doesn't want to be doctor cus of dad's wishes, becomes lawyer
secretly does what
eats meat to gain size
privately rejects
family's Hindu religion
Gandhi accused of
flooding the country with unwanted Indians, beaten by mob, did not prosecute
father died
fortunes declined
influenced Gandhi in jail
Thoreau
British can't ignore
bravery of Indians who fought in WWI
is rushed to hospital for
accuse appendicitis, is released from prison
new rule in 1864
an indentured person had to return to India after 5 years or stay for life
Gandhi calls followers to do what
appear at Transvaal border, try to enter, son given 3 months in jail, same with Gandhi
Spends 16 years where
ashram- religious retreat for a monk
Lucknow Pact
between Hindu Indian National Congress and Muslim league
Gandhi calls for
boycotting of everything British, tours countryside for 7 months
Tagore
gives Gandhi title of Mahatma, respect each other
Sex
gives up sex till death at 37 while his father died while he was having sex
Whites were disturbed by what
growing number of Indians
Gandhi encourages what
hartal- boycott of shopping, working, banking
stays a year in Nepal
helps Indians there suffering under British
finds out what when he returns to India
his mom died, son is 4 years old
offer to repeal act
if Indians register voluntarily, Gandhi accepts- says it was designed to keep Indians from entering illegally, why not
Fasts for 21 days in order to
improve relations between Hindus and Muslims
Indians came to South Africa
in 1860 as indentured laborers
Returns to India
in 1896 to get wife and son, second son born
Gandhi speaks out
in meeting in Imperial Theatre of Johannesburg, tells people not to comply
Jawaharlal Nehru
leader of young, not in agreement on non-violence
In place he was born
little European influence
a week after episode
meeting of Indians of Pretoria- said Indians had to lose bad habits- wanted to make individual better
Funeral was held
near holy waters of Jumna, outside New Delhi
as a boy in school
not particularly talented
Son
third son born in 1897, delivered fourth son in 1900
2 types of yogis
one who acts, one who meditates- Gandhi is a karma yogi
Transvaal Government passes draft of act
orders all Indian men women and children to submit registration and fingerprinting- would get fines, prison, deportation if they dont
Learns about what in England
other religions
Asiatic Registration Act
passed 1907, Gandhi given 2 months in jail
Dad is
politician
Smuts didn't what
repeal act
episode did what
revealed him as not a passive person
Herman Kallenbach
second in command of Satyagraha, bought 1,200 acres of land, gave to resistors, called Tolstoy Far
passes English bar
sets home for India the next day
Satyagraha means
soul force
London
travels to London for 3 year course
Given gifts
used them to make trust fund for SA Indians
response to hartal
violence, Gandhi calls it off- in Amritsar British fire on massive crowd, 379 people killed
Gandhi given what
war medal
on train to Pretoria
was pushed out for being brown
