[KALKI]

1888-1891: Studied law in London

1893: Sailed for South Africa

1906: Began Satyagraha campaign in South Africa to protest the requirement that Indians be fingerprinted and carry identification cards

1915: Returned to India from South Africa

1917: Initiated Champaran Satyagraha to alleviate the condition of indigo planters

1919: Instituted Satyagraha campaign in India to protest the Rowlatt Acts, which deprived all Indians of important civil liberties.

1922: Ended Non-Cooperation movement against British Raj after his followers were involved in a series of riots and disturbances that violated his policy of nonviolence

1930: Led Dandi March to collect salt in protest of the British salt tax.

1931: Signed a pact with Lord Irwin to suspend the Civil Disobedience Movement and went to London to attend Round Table Conference.

1932: Fasted to protest the treatment of people who belonged to no Hindu caste, the Harijans or Untouchables

1942: Launched Quit India Movement against British Raj.

January 30, 1948: Assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

Quotes:

• I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away.
• Abstinence is forgiveness only when there is power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature.
• Action for one's own self binds, action for the sake of others delivers from bondage.
• What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?
• You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance.
• Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
• Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
• Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
• True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
• The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
• The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
• Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.
• No power on earth can subjugate you when you are armed with the sword of ahimsa. It ennobles both the victor and the vanquished.
• The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
• The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.
• The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
• I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.
• God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.