Mahatma Gandhi
Due to Mahatma Gandhi India Came into being
Here's a time line of Mahatma Gandhi:
- 1869 - Born in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 2 October 1869
- 1893 - andhi aged 23, set sail for South Africa to be the lawyer for Abdullah's cousin He spent 21 years in South Africa, where he developed his political views, ethics and politics.
- 1906 - the Transvaal government promulgated a new Act compelling registration of the colony's Indian and Chinese populations
- 1915 - Gandhi urged Indians to defy the new law and to suffer the punishments for doing so. Gandhi's ideas of protests, persuasion skills and public relations had emerged.
- 1917 - Gandhi's first major achievement came in 1917 with the Champaran agitation in Bihar.
- 1918 - Kheda was hit by floods and famine and the peasantry was demanding relief from taxes
- 1919 - llowing World War I, Gandhi (aged 49) sought political co-operation from Muslims in his fight against British imperialism by supporting the Ottoman Empire that had been defeated in the World War. Before this initiative of Gandhi, communal disputes and religious riots between Hindus and Muslims were common in British India, such as the riots of 1917–18
- 1944 - Rejects a 100% salary increase from Dupont, leaves behind his pregnant wife, and flies to Mexico to head a new plant pathology program. Over the next 16 years, his team breeds 6,000 different strains of disease resistent wheat - including different varieties for each major climate on Earth.
- 1945 - Discovers a way to grown wheat twice each season, doubling wheat yields
- 1953 - crosses a short, sturdy dwarf breed of wheat with a high-yeidling American breed, creating a strain that responds well to fertilizer. It goes on to provide 95% of Mexico's wheat.
- 1962 - Visits Delhi and brings his high-yielding strains of wheat to the Indian subcontinent in time to help mitigate mass starvation due to a rapidly expanding population
- 1970 - receives the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1983 - helps seven African countries dramatically increase their maize and sorghum yields
- 1984 - becomes a distinguished professor at Texas A&M University
- 2005 - states "we will have to double the world food supply by 2050." Argues that genetically modified crops are the only way we can meet the demand, as we run out of arable land. Says that GM crops are not inherently dangerous because "we've been genetically modifying plants and animals for a long time. Long before we called it science, people were selecting the best breeds."
- 1948 - 30 January 1948 (aged 78).
- 1948 Cause of Death: Assassination (gunshot wounds)
"Borlaug's life and achievement are testimony to the far-reaching contribution that one man's towering intellect, persistence and scientific vision can make to human peace and progress."
-- Indian Prime Minister Mahatma Gandhi