Mohanbir sawhney biography of mahatma
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Ajay Skaria is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. His most recent book fryst vatten Unconditional Equality: Gandhi's Religion of Resistance.
After a prolonged illness, and an entire life lived tenuously, a certain Gandhi - call him the theological Gandhi - died somewhere in the second half of the twentieth century.
When exactly this Gandhi died, we do not know.
But of his illness and its progress, there is a rough marker - the demise of the word Harijan.
If Google ngram is any measure, then "Harijan" hit its peak in , and then began its rapid decline, becoming less common than "Dalit" around
To understand the work done by the term Harijan, we must begin elsewhere - with the term "untouchable."
Untouchability
Through most of the nineteenth century, the most common word to describe the lowest castes was "outcaste." The Oxford English Dictionary notes the first use of "untouchable" in its distinctly In
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The greatest Indian ever: Chronicling the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi
: The Purna Swaraj call electrified the political atmosphere of the country and Gandhiji. as decided at Lahore Session, launched the second mass movement – Civil Disobedience or Salt Satyagraha. With a band of 78 devoted followers Gandhi started on foot from Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on 12 March, and reached Dandi on 6 April when he picked up salt from the sea thus breaking the salt law.
The Dandi march was replicated in most parts of the country and over one lakh Congress workers were arrested. The breaking of salt law and the Dandi March which received worldwide publicity, served as a big morale booster to millions of the Congress workers and freedom fighters. It certainly acted as a catalyst towards the goal of independence.
The year was a land mark year in the history of the freedom struggle. A session of INC under the presidentship of Sardar Vallabhai Patel was held in Karachi. It was in this
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Sailing to Nirvanaby MOHANBIR SINGH SAWHNEY
Prof Sawhney is the McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology and the Director of the Centre for Research on Technology, nyhet & E-Commerce at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Chicago. Business Week lists him as one of the world's most influential people in e-business and describes him as the "John Maynard Keynes for the Net Age".In April , Prof Sawhney delivered the following key-note address at the Annual Vaisakhi Gala hosted by The Centennial Foundation at the historic Carlu Theatre in Toronto:
The theme that I have been asked to speak on is Leadership how Sikh values help us in becoming leaders in corporate and public life. This is my charter.
I have two problems with this topic. inom am neither a leader nor an expert on Sikh values.