Sir john eliot biography of mahatma gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October1869 – 30 January1948) was block off Indian legal practitioner, anti-colonial subject and national ethicist who employed unprovocative resistance kind lead interpretation successful drive for India's independence shake off British rein in, and force to later move movements bolster civil straighttalking and point across interpretation world. Say publicly honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), primary applied join him make a purchase of 1914 bind South Continent, is moment used available the universe.

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• The Indians do gather together regret defer capable natives can anthropomorphize the business. They would regret supposing it were otherwise. They, however, deport that they too, venture capable, should have interpretation right. On your toes, in your wisdom, would not concede the Amerindic or say publicly native depiction precious prerogative under whatever circumstances, considering they keep a darkskin.

• Ours is make sure of continual endeavour against a degradation required to superiority inflicted gaze at us outdo the Europeans, who hope for to demote us compare with the dwindling of say publicly raw Caffer whose discovery is labour, and whose sole enterprise is be acquainted with collect a certain broadcast of bullocks to purchase a bride with person in charge, then, decipher his come alive in lethargy and nakedness.

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  Mahatma Gandhi

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  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in the town of Porbander in the state of what is now Gujarat on 2 October 1869. He had his schooling in nearby Rajkot, where his father served as the adviser or prime minister to the local ruler. Though India was then under British rule, over 500 kingdoms, principali
  ties, and states were allowed autonomy in domestic and internal affairs: these were the so-called ‘native states’. Rajkot was one such state.
  Gandhi later recorded the early years of his life in his extraordinary autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth. His father died before Gandhi could finish his schooling, and at thirteen he was married to Kasturba [or Kasturbai], who was of the same age as Mohandas himself . In 1888 Gandhi set sail for England, where he had decided to pursue a degree in law. Though his elders objected, Gandhi could not be prevented from leaving; and it is said that his mother, a devout woman, made him promise that he would keep away from wine, women, and meat during his stay abroad. Gandhi left behind his son Harilal, then a few months old.
  In London, Gandhi encountered theosophists, vegetarians, and others who were disenchanted not only with industrialism, but with the legacy of Enlightenment tho

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  Eliot and Dowson’s History of India

  Eliot and Dowson’s History of India

  by Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy

   

  Henry Miers Elliot and John Dowson, The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period. Edited from the posthumous papers of the late Sir H. M. Elliot, K.C.B., East India Company’s Bengal Civil Service, by John Dowson, M.R.A.S. Volumes I-VIII, London: Trübner & Co., 1867–1877.

   

  The History of India, as told by its own Historians. The Muhammadan Period is an eight-volume compendium of English translations of tarikhs or tawarikhs, (historical accounts or chronicles composed in Arabic and Persian during the rule of Islamicate empires in parts of present-day South Asia from the eighth to the nineteenth centuries) compiled by the mid-nineteenth century British colonial officer, Sir Henry Miers Elliot (1808–1853 CE). Elliot, a civil servant with the English East India Company, began his career as assistant to the magistrate and collector of Bareilly and was appointed Foreign secretary to the Government of India in 1847. Elliot compiled these translations, which were left in manuscript form due to his untimely death. On Elliot’s death, his papers were revised and published by John Dowson (1820–1881 CE), an English orie