The film Gandhi starts off with the assassination of Gandhi on January 30, 1948. He was killed simply because of the split of Hindus and Muslims into Pakistan and India, instead of trying to retain the country united (which was impossible at the time). The story then jumps back to Gandhi early in his life, when he is a practicing lawyer. He is traveling in South Africa on a train and is thrown off simply because he refuses to give up his 1st class seat. The conductor wants him to move mainly because he is Indian. This upsets him and he organizes a burning of the discriminatory codes. The protestors are arrested and released.
Gandhi is motivated by religious suggests he believes that everyone is equal in God’s eyes. He gets involved in many movements for equality, and he stresses non-violence really strongly. The Indians are extremely mad mainly because British rule continues to limit their rights. They are supposed to all get fingerprinted, and their marriage laws are invalid. Gandhi’s followers vow to fight their oppressors to the death, but he discourages them from violence.
He and his wife kind a sort of commune of purity. They reside off of the land entirely. In the course of one particular scene, they ask all of Gandhi’s followers to burn all of their garments that were made in Britain and wear only what they can make themselves. Gandhi practices this for the rest of his life, ordinarily wearing just a loincloth.
In yet another scene, Gandhi is in jail, and some of his followers are peacefully gathered in a square. The police lock up the square and kill almost everybody, more than 1,500 people. Gandhi is disgusted and discouraged. He continues to preach non-violence, but the Indians do have occasional conflict with the police. Gandhi’s counter to the common phrase “an eye for an eye” says that immediately after that, “everyone will be blind.” Gandhi leads numerous organized protests against British rule. In 1, all Indians stopped carrying out their operate, and the key cities in the nation were disabled. Another time, he led a 165-mile stroll to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt. The Indians produced their personal salt out of the sea.
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