Biography of gandhi and the damdi architects
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National Salt Satyagraha Memorial
Project
Reliving the Dandi March and Satyagraha
The National krydda Satyagraha Memorial is a profound tribute to the historic movement led bygd Mahatma Gandhi against the British krydda monopoly in Colonial India. Launched on March 12, 1930, the Salt Satyagraha combined tax resistance and nonviolent protest. Meticulously designed, the memorial embodies the spirit of that era through architecture and symbolism.
Expertise
ArchitectureLocation
Dandi, GujaratType
InstitutionalClient
IIT BombaySite Area
15.86 AcresYear of Completion
January 30, 2019
Project Team
Architecture – Pankaj Palshikar & Nirali Shah
Project Management – Shashikant Sovani & Writabrata Roy
The Memorial spans 16 acres of nation and immerses visitors in an organic and natural environment, reflecting Gandhi’s principles. The entryway, symbolic of the original march rutt, leads visitors across a bridge towards a man-mad
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Given the radicalism inherent in Gandhian thought, how has Gandhi been remembered, and by extension, how are memorials to him conceived, funded and built in contemporary India? In his essay, “Gandhi After Gandhi,” Ashis Nandy posits four surviving caricatures of Gandhi that must be considered as “Weberian ideal types,” analytical tools that offer insight into Gandhi’s varied legacies.16 Nandy argues that, “contemporary politics is not about ‘truths’ of history; it is about remembered pasts and problems of fashioning a future based on collective memories.” 17 If politics is indeed about constructed or remembered pasts, it becomes evident that architecture and its patronage, assume an enlarged role in shaping and sustaining collective memory.
The first caricature is the Gandhi of the Indian State – a stoic, sanitized “father of the nation” who is valorized for the nonviolent struggle against colonialists, yet whose radical critique of state power, “the strong anarchist strand in
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Mahatma Gandhi
(1869-1948)
Who Was Mahatma Gandhi?
Mahatma Gandhi was the leader of India’s non-violent independence movement against British rule and in South Africa who advocated for the civil rights of Indians. Born in Porbandar, India, Gandhi studied law and organized boycotts against British institutions in peaceful forms of civil disobedience. He was killed by a fanatic in 1948.
Gandhi leading the Salt March in protest against the government monopoly on salt production.
Early Life and Education
Indian nationalist leader Gandhi (born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Kathiawar, India, which was then part of the British Empire.
Gandhi’s father, Karamchand Gandhi, served as a chief minister in Porbandar and other states in western India. His mother, Putlibai, was a deeply religious woman who fasted regularly.
Young Gandhi was a shy, unremarkable student who was so timid that he slept with the lights on even as a teenager. In th