The award-winning movie Gandhi endures as a great biography

Gandhi recuperating from an assault, 1908
Originally uploaded by taruntej.

Gandhi vocab from the eponymous movie:

loincloth
humility
simple truth
colored / non-whites were referred to by the turn-of-the-century British as "colored" or even "black."
kaffir
coolie
children of god
barrister
Sikh
defiance of injustice
ashram
benefactor
bapu
Mahatma

Map showing trade routes connecting India and East Africa. Both the nations of India and South Africa were British colonies.

Progress reports will be issued to my students by Wed. Sorry for the delay.


See more on the Mahatma at Gandhi. His keys to social action were to use
* the British courts and law.
* the press
* Christian principles (though a Hindu, Gandhi was well read in the Koran and Bible)
* diplomacy.

In this movie one of my pleasures is watching the many varieties of beautifully-tied turbans.

Physical geo:
* Hindu Kush / the major range on the Pakistani side of India. Is this where Osama hides?
* plate tectonics / continental drift / collision of earth's plates results in the continental uplift called the Himalayas and Hindu Kush.
* Why so many languages across India? There are 20 major languages, each reflecting a region.