Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Quebec City, QC, Canada
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A monument honoring the leader of the Indian independence movement, and apostle of peace and non-violence Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is located at La Place de l'Assemblée-Nationalethe on the Grand Allée just outside the St. Louis Gate in Quebec City
Waymark Code: WMX3C9
Location: Québec, Canada
Date Posted: 11/21/2017
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A monument honoring Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was unveiled on November 2, 2006. The was created by Indian artist Gautam Pal.
A life size bronze bust depicts Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi from the mid-chest up. He is wearing metal rimmed glasses and a robe around his shoulders leaving his chest is bare. The square bronze plinth of the bust rests on a 5' high square polished black granite base.
The front of the base is inscribed:
MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND
GANDHI
1869 - 1948
APOTRE DE LA NON VIOLENCE
ET PERE DE LA NATION INDIENNE
IL DEMEURE UN MODELE
DE LIBERTE ET DE DEMOCRATIE
LA DEMOCRATIE DEVRAIL
ASSURER AU PLUS FAIBLE
LES MEMES OPPORTUNITIES
QU'AU PLUS FORT
UN TEMOIGNAGE D'AMITIE, DE FRATERNITE ET
DE COMPRÉHENSION DU PEUPLE DE L'INDIE
À L'EGARD DU PEUPLE DU QUEBEC
LE 2 NOVEMBRE 2006
MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND
GANDHI
1869 - 1948
APOSTLE OF NON VIOLENCE
AND FATHER OF THE INDIAN NATION
IT REMAINS A MODEL
OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY
DEMOCRACY SHOULD
ENSURE THE WEAKEST
THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES
AS THE STRONGEST
A TESTIMONY OF FRIENDSHIP, FRATERNITY AND
UNDERSTANDING OF THE PEOPLE OF INDIA
TO THE PEOPLE OF QUEBEC
NOVEMBER 2, 2006
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 2, 1869 into a Hindu merchant caste family in Gujarat, India. He studied law at the Inner Temple, London. He then moved to South Africa where he first used nonviolent civil disobedience in an effort to establish equality and to end discrimination.
He returned to British colonial India and in 1921 he assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress. Gandhi led the movement to address social injustice and self-rule for India by non-violent means. He hoped for a pluralistic India but when in 1947 the British granted independence the sub-continent was partitioned into a Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. On January 30, 1948 Gandhi was shot and killed by a Hindu nationalist, Nathuram Godse, who thought Gandhi was was too accommodating to political demands of Indian Muslims.