WORKED AGAINST SOCIAL EVIL


26 Apr, 2009

AGAINST CHILD MARRIAGE..

2.He was not in the favour of child marriages and made a campaign against them on the ground that they weakened the race.

3. He tried his level best to eliviate the sufferings of leprosy patients.


27 Apr, 2009

AGAINST UNTOUCHABILITY ..

1.In March 1932 the British Government made its intention known to divide Indians on the basis of relgion by the new schemes of communal electorate would be released.Fially on August 17,1932, Prime Minister Ramsay Mcdonald published separate electorates for Hindus, Muslims,Sikhs,Europeans and untouchables.
Gandhi treatened to undertakeGandhiji’s fast was a matter of serious for al. In the end Gandhiji succeded in his will when the Poona Pact on 25th September , 1932.
(INFORMATION TAKEN FROM BOOK “MAHATMA GANDHI” BY ROMAIN ROLLAND


2.Gandhiji established Harijan Welfare Fund earmarked for anti-untouchability and collected fundsfrom various quarters by traveling from place to place.Referring to them he exclamed that India would not be Independent until “the poorest of the poor”
(INFORMATION TAKEN FROM BOOK “MAHATMA GANDHI” BY ROMAIN ROLLAND



26 Apr, 2009

SKETCH OF MAHATMA GANDHI

PHOTO TAKEN FROM BOOK “TRIAL OF INDEPENDENCE" BY B.R.AGARWALA