Mahatma Gandhi First Television Interview (30 April 1931)

This is Mahatma Gandhi's first television interview. On 30 April 1931 Gandhi gave this interview to Fox Movietone News and also met the peasants of Bardoli. This precious clipping is from the archives of Fox News Movietone.

January 26, 1930: Gandhi publishes the Declaration of Independence of India.
March 2, 1931: Gandhi warns the Viceroy of his intention to break the Salt Laws.
March 12-April 6, 1931: Gandhi leads his Salt March to the sea.
May 5, 1931: Gandhi is arrested for violating the Salt Laws; non-cooperation movements break out across India.
January 1931: British government yields to protests, releases all prisoners, invites a Congress representative to Britain for a Round Table Conference (the Congress asks Gandhi to be this representative).
Autumn 1931: Gandhi participates in the Round Table Conference in Britain.
December 28, 1931: Gandhi returns to India.
January 4, 1932: Gandhi is arrested for sedition, and held without a trial.
September 20-25, 1932: Gandhi fasts in prison to protest the treatment of untouchables.
1934-38: Gandhi avoids politics, travels in rural India.
1935: Government of India Act passes British Parliament and is implemented in India; it is the first movement toward independence.
September 1939: World War II begins, lasting until 1945.
March 22, 1942: Sir Stafford Cripps arrives in India, presenting to the Indian National Congress a proposal for Dominion status (autonomy within the British Commonwealth) after the War.
August 8, 1942: The Indian National Congress rejects the Cripps proposal, and declares it will grant its support for the British war effort only in return for independence.
August 1942: Congress leaders are arrested; Gandhi is imprisoned in the Aga Khan's palace.
February 10 to March 2, 1943: Gandhi fasts while imprisoned, to protest British rule.
February 22, 1944: Death of Kasturbai
May 6, 1944: Gandhi is released from the Aga Khan's palace.
Summer 1944: Gandhi visits Muhammed Ali Jinnah in Bombay, but is unable to work out an agreement that will keep India whole.
May 16, 1946: British Cabinet Mission publishes proposal for an Indian state, without partition; Jinnah and the Muslim League reject the proposal.
March 1947: Lord Mountbatten arrives in India and hammers out agreement for independence and partition.
August 15, 1947: Indian independence becomes official, as does the partition into two countries, India and Pakistan.
August-December 1948: India dissolves into chaos and killings, as Hindus and Muslims flee for the borders of India and Pakistan.
January 30, 1948: Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Vinayuk Godse, a Hindu nationalist.

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[tstruss912]

Wow, Fox news actually used to do something good. Nowadays they'd call him a terrorist that needs to be killed.

[Santosh Gairola]

Difficult to answer on anyone's behalf, but I think he is talking "Ahimsa" here. Talk of death/kill is "bad".

Remember he did not say, it is a "wrong" question, he said it is a 'bad" question.

[Manjit Singh Jabbal]

thats what he was

[Manjit Singh Jabbal]

If charkha was so important then why people wear not khadi now why other brand and why he used english for interview why not hindi because he was looking only his benefits not whole country.

[MsKiddah]

oh right.. probably you would've done better than him in leading India to independence. Everyone, Mr. Manny here thinks he knows what it takes to forsake his own life for the sake of the country. He deserves a thunderous applause!! *clap clap clap clap*

[MsKiddah]

share the same sentiments:)

[MsKiddah]

lol!!

[MsKiddah]

STFU dick head!!! You can comment and criticize however much you want but if you had shown even 10% of the dedication that he showed towards the progress of India, i bet our country would be much more developed by now.. i wish all you assholes who talk a lot actually lived like a slave to the british.. probably then you'd know what it was like to struggle for independence..

[comprehensiveboy]

I am British and find it very strange that we were able to rule over India for so long until a little before I was born. It's hard to imagine the arrogance that must have been prevalent. Now we do not even rule ourselves.

[JATIN SHARMA]

There should be only one religion in world for all humanbeings true & nonviolence for making our living world heaven . We should become kind for all . Language of all human brains should be one only English . One caste humanity . One goal welfare of human beings . One country "Living world" . No fight , No hate , Only love & peace & silence . Thank you very much !

[JATIN SHARMA]

Nathuram Godse did blunder . True & nonviolence followers are really great brains .

[JATIN SHARMA]

Please feel shame on your comment dear Arjun for a great brain Gandhi Ji always like to follow path of True & Nonviolence . Shame !!!