13 Facts About Gandhism

Gandhism is a body of ideas that describes the inspiration, vision, and the life work of M K Gandhi.

Term "Gandhism" encompasses what Gandhi's ideas, words, and actions mean to people around the world and how they used them for guidance in building their own future.

Gandhism asserted that fighting in the war would provide Indians necessary self-defense skills that had been eroded by the deep-seated influence of India's ascetic culture, which he disdained.

Gandhism envisioned a more agrarian India upon independence that would focus on meeting the material needs of its citizenry prior to generating wealth and industrialising.

Gandhism focused on persuading all members of the Indian National Congress to spend some time each day hand-spinning on their charkhas.

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Gandhism believed that abstention would diminish his sensual faculties, bringing the body increasingly under the mind's absolute control.

Gandhism professed the philosophy of Hindu Universalism, which maintains that all religions contain truth and therefore worthy of toleration and respect.

Gandhism was, however, deeply influenced by Gandhi personally as well as politically, and used his premiership to pursue ideological policies based on Gandhi's principles.

Gandhism called this a difference in emphasis, his being on 'means' while Nehru's being on ends.

Gandhism's was released in November 2010, when free elections were to be held.

Gandhism admitted in his autobiography to hitting his wife when he was young, and indulging in carnal pleasures out of lust, jealousy and possessiveness, not genuine love.

Gandhism had eaten meat, smoked a cigarette, and almost visited a hustler.

Gandhism's ideas, symbolized in propaganda, stated that India was a nation capable of economic self-sufficiency without the British, a unity transcending religion would make for a stronger nation, and that the most effective method of protest was through passive resistance, including non-violence and the principle of satyagraha.