Sasha go hard biography of mahatma gandhi

Unpacking Gandhi's Legacy With Historian Vijay Prashad

Tomorrow marks 150 years since Mahatma Gandhi was born in a small town in India’s state of Gujarat. Raised in a conservative middle-class, upper-caste milieu, Gandhi would develop his political consciousness in England, where he studied law, and in South Africa, where he started his legal practice by working against racist colonial policies. As Gandhi matured, he would return to India and become a leader of the burgeoning nationalist movement, eventually theorizing and implementing "Satyagraha," or truth-force, a mode of nonviolent direct action that politically and economically crippled the British Raj. Due in large part to Gandhi's leadership and ideology, India was able to peacefully overthrow British colonialism and declare independence as a secular, democratically governed republic in 1947. In the years since India's founding and Gandhi's assassination shortly thereafter, India has veered considerably away from the vision Gandhi had advanced. Caste-based oppression is still a reality, forms of socialism advocated by Gandhi and India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru have largely been overtaken by drastic economic inequality and the longstanding tradition of secularism is givin