Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Gopal Krishna Gokhale ( Marathi: गोपाळ कृष्ण गोखले Gopal Krsna Gokhale, born May 8, 1866 in Kolhat, Maharashtra, † February 19, 1915 in Poona ) was one of the most read Indian, a leading figure of the social and political reformer and one of the earliest founding figures of the Indian independence movement. Gokhale was a leading member of the Indian National Congress and the Servants of India Society. The latter devoted himself exclusively to social reform, while the Congress- main engine of Indian political representation was during Gokhale time.

Education and social reform

Gokhale was a large, formerly Indian champion for public education. He belonged to the first generation of Indians who had received an education at a college, thereby Gokhale wide respect among the emerging Indian intellectuals layer acquired and all over India, whose people were looking at him as the last elitist educated Indians. Born in a poor family Gokhale was truly a man of the people, a hero to the young Indian who discovered the new age and the possibilities of the dawning 20th century. He worked among Indians to advance education, health and public development. He kicked ignorance, the caste system and untouchability on in Indian society.

He taught at Fergusson College in Pune.

Gokhale enjoyed great prestige by his work, with which he wanted to sow trust and friendship between Hindus and Muslims. It should be recalled that Gokhale was a pioneer in this field, since this attempt had never been done before in Indian history through Indian.

Indian National Congress

Together with other distinguished colleagues, such as Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Dadabhai Naoroji, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai and Annie Besant, Gokhale fought for decades for greater political representation and power in public affairs for the average Indian. He was moderate in his views and attitudes sought by the British authorities to move through petitions, cultivated a process of dialogue and discussion in order to bring about a greater British respect for Indian rights. Gokhale had visited Ireland and arranged that an Irish nationalist, Alfred Webb, served as president of the Indian National Congress in 1894. 1905, Gokhale presided over the annual session of the Congress Party, in which they protested against the disposal of Viceroy Lord Curzon partition of Bengal. At the party in 1906 in Calcutta, under the chairmanship of Dadabhai Naoroji, Gokhale and Tilak were undisputed as the two representatives of the moderate and aggressive nationalist wing of the Congress Party. Tilak advocated civil agitation and direct revolution to get rid of the British Empire, what the Congress Party in 1907 split into two wings. They came only in 1916 together again.

Gokhale made ​​several trips to London, where he negotiated as required by the Congress Party constitutional reform for India with the Liberal Secretary of State for India, John Morley. The constitutional reform in 1909 by conservative Viceroy Lord Minto adopted, however, was more strongly influenced by his Secretary of State Herbert Risley and Minto's own intentions, the Muslim League at the expense of the Congress Party to promote. It provided for separate electorates for Muslims and Hindus to take the Muslims the fear of being outvoted by the Hindus and to undermine the Congress Party. This course took place subsequent partition of British India into Pakistan and the Indian Union in advance, because since Muslim politicians were able to distinguish themselves only by the dedicated representation of Muslim special interests and did not have to strive only to the support of the Hindus.

Political beliefs

Gokhale not explicitly supported Indian independence, because this idea would not have been understood or brought before the First World War. His most important contribution to the development of India was that of a teacher; Educators a whole new generation of leaders who are their responsibilities towards a larger nation were aware.

Mentor

Gokhale was a famous mentor of that young lawyer, who was injured a few years earlier, deep in the revolutionary work in South Africa. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was told by Gokhale great human care and close and personal advice, knowledge and understanding of India, the problems of the average Indians and Indian policy. Approximately 1920 of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the known " Mahatma " Gandhi, who became the leader of the Indian nationalist movement and the world's largest non-violent revolution in the history of mankind. Gokhale himself died in 1915. In his autobiography, Gandhi Gokhale calls his mentor and teacher, while Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the future founder of Pakistan, 1912 " Muslim Gokhale ", " Ambassador of the unity of Hindus and Muslims " wanted to be.

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