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    Gandhi Movie Synopsis

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    1) Gandhi begins in 1948 showing Gandhi's assassination and funeral, then flashes back to 1893 when a young Gandhi was thrown off a train for being Indian and sparked his interest in fighting discrimination. 2) Gandhi leads numerous non-violent protests and strikes against discriminatory British laws, often getting arrested. This includes organizing a salt march in 1930 to protest British control of salt production. 3) As violence increases between Hindus and Muslims in the late 1940s over the possibility of an independent India and Pakistan, Gandhi agrees to partition but fasts in protest against the violence and sectarian clashes during the transition to independence. He is assassinated in 1948, less than a year after independence.

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    1) Gandhi begins in 1948 showing Gandhi's assassination and funeral, then flashes back to 1893 when a young Gandhi was thrown off a train for being Indian and sparked his interest in fighting discrimination. 2) Gandhi leads numerous non-violent protests and strikes against discriminatory British laws, often getting arrested. This includes organizing a salt march in 1930 to protest British control of salt production. 3) As violence increases between Hindus and Muslims in the late 1940s over the possibility of an independent India and Pakistan, Gandhi agrees to partition but fasts in protest against the violence and sectarian clashes during the transition to independence. He is assassinated in 1948, less than a year after independence.

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    1) Gandhi begins in 1948 showing Gandhi's assassination and funeral, then flashes back to 1893 when a young Gandhi was thrown off a train for being Indian and sparked his interest in fighting discrimination. 2) Gandhi leads numerous non-violent protests and strikes against discriminatory British laws, often getting arrested. This includes organizing a salt march in 1930 to protest British control of salt production. 3) As violence increases between Hindus and Muslims in the late 1940s over the possibility of an independent India and Pakistan, Gandhi agrees to partition but fasts in protest against the violence and sectarian clashes during the transition to independence. He is assassinated in 1948, less than a year after independence.

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    1) Gandhi begins in 1948 showing Gandhi's assassination and funeral, then flashes back to 1893 when a young Gandhi was thrown off a train for being Indian and sparked his interest in fighting discrimination. 2) Gandhi leads numerous non-violent protests and strikes against discriminatory British laws, often getting arrested. This includes organizing a salt march in 1930 to protest British control of salt production. 3) As violence increases between Hindus and Muslims in the late 1940s over the possibility of an independent India and Pakistan, Gandhi agrees to partition but fasts in protest against the violence and sectarian clashes during the transition to independence. He is assassinated in 1948, less than a year after independence.

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    Plot Summary

    Gandhi begins in 1948, showing Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination and state


    funeral in New Delhi, India.
    The next scene goes back in time to 1893. Gandhi is a young Indian attorney
    who is thrown off a train. The conductor tells him “coloured” people are not allowed
    to travel first class. Gandhi is shocked to learn about the discrimination against
    Indian immigrants, and he joins with an Indian businessman, Mr. Khan, to protest.
    Gandhi and Khan organize a protest where they burn the passes that Indians are
    required to carry everywhere. The police arrest Khan and beat Gandhi because he
    continues to burn the passes one by one. Gandhi refuses to fight back with violence.
    The incident is reported in British newspapers.
    When Gandhi discovers that General
    Smut has passed new laws that violate Indian
    civil rights, Gandhi makes a speech to a
    crowded audience calling for non-violent
    resistance against the new laws. The entire
    room rises and promises not to obey the new
    laws.
    Gandhi leads a strike of Indian
    miners, and the British put him in prison
    along with thousands of other protesters. In
    order to re-open the mines, General Smut
    makes an agreement with Gandhi that he will cancel the new laws and free the
    protesters, but future Indian immigration will be stopped.
    In 1915, Gandhi arrives in Bombay, India to a large welcoming ceremony.
    Members of the Indian National Congress Party, including Nehru, Patel, and Jinnah
    (who is also leader of the Muslim League), greet Gandhi. Gandhi spends a year
    travelling India to understand India better. After seeing widespread poverty, Gandhi
    tells the other members of Congress Party that he disapproves of their wealthy
    lifestyles. He later makes a speech to say that politicians can only represent India and
    challenge the British if they truly understand the lives of the many poor people in
    India.
    Living a simple life in his ashram, Gandhi becomes more aware of the
    poverty caused by British rule. When Gandhi is arrested for encouraging non-violent
    non-cooperation with British laws, riots break
    out and he is granted bail. Gandhi and his
    partners gather a lot of evidence against British
    landholders, and the protesting farmers
    eventually receive their demands.
    In response to proposed laws that would
    violate Indian civil rights, Gandhi organizes a
    day of fast and prayer. This has the effect of a
    mass general strike and brings India to a
    complete halt. The British arrest Gandhi again.
    They soon agree to release him because of riots, if he will make a speech calling for
    non-violence.
    General Dyer orders his
    troops to open fire on a public, non-
    violent meeting, and 1,516 Indian
    men, women and children are
    killed. With even stronger
    determination for Indian
    independence, the Congress Party
    adopts Gandhi’s policy of non-
    violent civil disobedience in 1920.
    A British woman called Mirabehn comes to live with him and his wife Ba.
    Gandhi calls for a huge crowd to burn their British-made clothing at a peaceful rally,
    but the next rally takes a violent turn when the crowd kills a group of local
    policemen. Gandhi decides to fast until the protesters will stop their violence, and he
    successfully ends the rioting. He is then arrested once again for sedition and
    sentenced to six years in prison.
    In Porbandar State several years later, New York Times reporter Mr. Walker
    arrives in India to follow Gandhi’s movement. Gandhi tells him of his new plan to
    protest the British tax on salt manufacture. Gandhi is joined by thousands of people
    as he makes a 240-mile march
    to the sea, while Walker covers
    the story for global media. The
    march leads to widespread
    manufacture of salt by Indians
    without a British licence.
    During a non-violent raid on
    the Dharasana Salt Works,
    many Indian men are badly
    beaten by local police. Walker
    reports the story to the global
    media.
    Lord Irwin invites Gandhi to attend an all-government conference in London
    to discuss the possibility of Indian independence. The conference ends with no
    agreement.
    During World War II, Gandhi, his wife, and Nehru are arrested for speaking
    out against the war. A photographer from Life magazine, Margaret Bourke-White,
    visits Gandhi during his time in prison. His wife, Ba, suffers heart problems and
    eventually dies. Gandhi becomes aware of high anti-Hindu feelings among Muslims,
    who have been provoked by Jinnah to fear the possibility of a mostly Hindu country.
    Once World War II is over, England sends Lord Mountbatten to serve as
    India’s new viceroy, and he promises to guide the country to independence. Gandhi
    asks Jinnah to become the country’s first prime minister to calm Muslim fears, but
    Jinnah argues that an independent Pakistan should be partitioned or else there will
    be civil war.
    Gandhi agrees to the partition, despite his strong hopes for unity. There are
    violent clashes as Muslim refugees head out of India and Indian refugees move from
    Pakistan. Gandhi begins another fast in protest of the violence, and he nearly dies
    when the fighting finally stops.
    Less than a year after India gains independence, Gandhi is assassinated. He is
    granted a State funeral, and his ashes are released into the Ganges River.

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