Prisoners and detainees of British India: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Abul Kalam Azad, Motilal Nehru, Bidhan Chandra Roy, Sukhdev Thapar, Feroze Gandhi, Govind Ballabh Pant, Aruna Asaf Ali, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, Bhai Parmanand, Batukeshwar Dutt, Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, Narendra Deva, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Yogendra Shukla, Charu Majumdar, Promode Ranjan Chaudhury. Excerpt: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 - 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. A pioneer of satyagraha, or resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience - a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa, or total nonviolence - Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is often referred to as Mahatma (; Sanskrit: महात्मा mahātmā or "Great Soul," an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore). In India, he is also called Bapu (Gujarati: , bāpu or "Father") and officially honoured as the Father of the Nation. His birthday, 2 October, is commemorated in India as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence. Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers in protesting excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, but above all for achieving Swaraj - the independence of India from...