BBC Alba Documentaries

Gandhi (2022x2)

Air date: Sep 22, 2022

How Gandhi is considered the embodiment of non-violent resistance. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as 'Mahatma', was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic on 30 January 1948. Today, Gandhi is considered the embodiment of non-violent resistance. His great words have also taken hold in the western world: ahimsa - non-violence, satyagraha - insistence on truth, and swaraj - self-governance. Gandhi was and remained a Hindu, but engaged intensively with other religions. He took the Baghavad Gita and the Sermon on the Mount as the spiritual basis for his political actions. His concept of renunciation of violence and loving one’s enemies therefore also had a strong influence on Christians, for instance the American Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King.