Mahatma Gandhi -the man and his boy hood
Mahatma Gandhi ( father of nation ) is fearless by nature ,independent and always giving by nature is national leader of India.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2nd in 1869 in Porbandar a coastal town in Gujarat in India. The state of Porbandar was ruled by India princes at that time on whom British residents kept a watchful eye. The India was under British rule. From Rajkot an inland city 120 miles to the east of Porbandar a British agent supervised all primary states of Kathiawar or (Kathiawad) region known as Saurashtra . Gujarati was language of Kathiawar, as also of adjacent region to its east, where largest city was Ahmadabad and coastal lands ( also red) north of Mumbai including port city of Surat , one of Briton Indian out posts.
In 1857, only 12 years before Mohandas Gandhi was born in Delhi, several places to the east overthrow British rule including some yellow princely states. They had witnessed a violent rebellion that nearly overthrew British rule in India which had begun a century before.
For generations or more, Mohandas Gandhi’s fore bearers had served Kathiawar princes as administrators. Uttamchand/Ota Gandhi, Mohandas grand father was most successful among them. The ruler of Porbandar made him a diwan or first minister of his territory and Ota Gandhi who enhanced the state irrigation and revenues obtained his master a class one state from British . Two of Ota’s sons Kaba Gandhi, Mohandas father and his younger son Tulsidas also became divans of Porbandar.
Gandhi’s belongs to the commercial cast of vanios ( or Banias). In Rajkot Mohandas Gandhi first went to primary school and soon after to taluka or suburban school. His father wished when Mohandas was ten that the boy would some day be sent to London for higher education.
Mohandas ‘s cultural and political impositions were matched by rules laid down for their children by parents like Kaba Gandhi and Putlibai. Kaba Gandhi was faithful to vaishnava tradition he had inherited, which called ceremonies at temples of Rama and Krishna . Kaba and his wife went to “rival’ Siva temple and their home was often visited by Jain monks.
When Mohandas Gandhi was hardly yet twelve Gandhi he resisted his mother Putlibai's orders not to touch, another boy who is cleaning lavatories in their house (untouchables prevalent in India in the past).
Kaba Gandhi advised Mohandas Gandhi not to touch meat and also instructed stating that smoking is
forbidden to him. Mohandas Gandhi resisted these rules and smoked bide and also ate meat along with his brother Karsan who is three years elder to him. At that it is clear that conscious of his parents great love for him Mohandas was experiencing intense emotional conflict.
In 1882 when Mohandas Gandhi was 13 years old he was married to Kasturba Makanji Kapadia a Porbander girl who was few months older than him.
Gandhi did not play either cricket or foot ball in school partly because he was needed at his house increasingly for nursing his sick father.
A friend and classmate of Karsan in high school and at racketing students, Mehtab was rakish youth of strength , speed daring-he ran fast long distances and did high and long jumps, swam swiftly and could put up with any amount of corporal punishment. To Mehtab, Mohandas was strange and deplorable but was also strong. He was worth capturing to this end. Mehtab( joined by Karsan who left the school after marriage ) mounted a campaign that played on Mohandas Gandhi eagerness to repair his male pride. Mehtab knew from Karsan of Mohandas cowardly fears and his frustration at Kastur’s independence and also of Mohandas Gandhi’s annoyance at white rule. Mehtab forced Mohandas to eat meat and Mohandas initially resisted and finally agreed and ate meat. Mohandas once confessed his stealing gold, trembled as he handed over confession letter to his father. His father read through and tears rolled down his cheeks wetting the paper Mohandas Gandhi cried. His inner heart felt that he should not have done the theft. Those pearl drops of love cleansed his heart and washed away Gandhi sin.
At age of 16 Mohandas Gandhi seems to have spent sometime each day attending on increasingly sick father. Kaba Gandhi health worsened. Mohandas Gandhi father died when he just went relieving his other Tulsidas his father brother who had come Porebander to be of support to Mohandas. The circumstances of father death and fact the poor mite to which Kastur in due course gave birth in three four days, would left permanent mark on Mohandas Gandhi attitude to sex.
Mohandas Gandhi was a mediocre student. He was only two reaching matriculation out of who passed the high school entrance examination. Though he cleared matriculation in 1987 journeying to Ahmadabad first time he was placed 404th out of about 3000 in western India a decent though not outstanding rank.
Mohandas joined a term in Samaldas college in Bhavnagar Kathiawar’ s princely towns 90 miles south east of Rajkot . But he was unhappy and home sick there. When after first term he returned to Rajkot for a break, an old family friend told Mohandas, laxmidas and their mother that only way to restore the family prestige was to implement kaba’s old idea Mohandas should go to London.
Mohandas Gandhi wanted to go London and qualify for medical profession. Laxmidas hinted that vaishnavas could not do that. He hinted Mohandas Gandhi should go to bar as his father last wish.
Mahatma Gandhi ( father of nation ) is fearless by nature ,independent and always giving by nature is national leader of India.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2nd in 1869 in Porbandar a coastal town in Gujarat in India. The state of Porbandar was ruled by India princes at that time on whom British residents kept a watchful eye. The India was under British rule. From Rajkot an inland city 120 miles to the east of Porbandar a British agent supervised all primary states of Kathiawar or (Kathiawad) region known as Saurashtra . Gujarati was language of Kathiawar, as also of adjacent region to its east, where largest city was Ahmadabad and coastal lands ( also red) north of Mumbai including port city of Surat , one of Briton Indian out posts.
In 1857, only 12 years before Mohandas Gandhi was born in Delhi, several places to the east overthrow British rule including some yellow princely states. They had witnessed a violent rebellion that nearly overthrew British rule in India which had begun a century before.
For generations or more, Mohandas Gandhi’s fore bearers had served Kathiawar princes as administrators. Uttamchand/Ota Gandhi, Mohandas grand father was most successful among them. The ruler of Porbandar made him a diwan or first minister of his territory and Ota Gandhi who enhanced the state irrigation and revenues obtained his master a class one state from British . Two of Ota’s sons Kaba Gandhi, Mohandas father and his younger son Tulsidas also became divans of Porbandar.
Gandhi’s belongs to the commercial cast of vanios ( or Banias). In Rajkot Mohandas Gandhi first went to primary school and soon after to taluka or suburban school. His father wished when Mohandas was ten that the boy would some day be sent to London for higher education.
Mohandas ‘s cultural and political impositions were matched by rules laid down for their children by parents like Kaba Gandhi and Putlibai. Kaba Gandhi was faithful to vaishnava tradition he had inherited, which called ceremonies at temples of Rama and Krishna . Kaba and his wife went to “rival’ Siva temple and their home was often visited by Jain monks.
When Mohandas Gandhi was hardly yet twelve Gandhi he resisted his mother Putlibai's orders not to touch, another boy who is cleaning lavatories in their house (untouchables prevalent in India in the past).
Kaba Gandhi advised Mohandas Gandhi not to touch meat and also instructed stating that smoking is
forbidden to him. Mohandas Gandhi resisted these rules and smoked bide and also ate meat along with his brother Karsan who is three years elder to him. At that it is clear that conscious of his parents great love for him Mohandas was experiencing intense emotional conflict.
In 1882 when Mohandas Gandhi was 13 years old he was married to Kasturba Makanji Kapadia a Porbander girl who was few months older than him.
Gandhi did not play either cricket or foot ball in school partly because he was needed at his house increasingly for nursing his sick father.
A friend and classmate of Karsan in high school and at racketing students, Mehtab was rakish youth of strength , speed daring-he ran fast long distances and did high and long jumps, swam swiftly and could put up with any amount of corporal punishment. To Mehtab, Mohandas was strange and deplorable but was also strong. He was worth capturing to this end. Mehtab( joined by Karsan who left the school after marriage ) mounted a campaign that played on Mohandas Gandhi eagerness to repair his male pride. Mehtab knew from Karsan of Mohandas cowardly fears and his frustration at Kastur’s independence and also of Mohandas Gandhi’s annoyance at white rule. Mehtab forced Mohandas to eat meat and Mohandas initially resisted and finally agreed and ate meat. Mohandas once confessed his stealing gold, trembled as he handed over confession letter to his father. His father read through and tears rolled down his cheeks wetting the paper Mohandas Gandhi cried. His inner heart felt that he should not have done the theft. Those pearl drops of love cleansed his heart and washed away Gandhi sin.
At age of 16 Mohandas Gandhi seems to have spent sometime each day attending on increasingly sick father. Kaba Gandhi health worsened. Mohandas Gandhi father died when he just went relieving his other Tulsidas his father brother who had come Porebander to be of support to Mohandas. The circumstances of father death and fact the poor mite to which Kastur in due course gave birth in three four days, would left permanent mark on Mohandas Gandhi attitude to sex.
Mohandas Gandhi was a mediocre student. He was only two reaching matriculation out of who passed the high school entrance examination. Though he cleared matriculation in 1987 journeying to Ahmadabad first time he was placed 404th out of about 3000 in western India a decent though not outstanding rank.
Mohandas joined a term in Samaldas college in Bhavnagar Kathiawar’ s princely towns 90 miles south east of Rajkot . But he was unhappy and home sick there. When after first term he returned to Rajkot for a break, an old family friend told Mohandas, laxmidas and their mother that only way to restore the family prestige was to implement kaba’s old idea Mohandas should go to London.
Mohandas Gandhi wanted to go London and qualify for medical profession. Laxmidas hinted that vaishnavas could not do that. He hinted Mohandas Gandhi should go to bar as his father last wish.
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