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 Years of Fasts of Mahatma Gandhi  | 
       
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     1913 (Phoenix)  | 
    
     Penitential fast for a week for moral lapses of two immediate at the settlement  | 
  
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     1914 (Phoenix)  | 
    
     Fourteen days fast for similar reason  | 
  
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     01 June, 1915  | 
    
     Fasted for a day on detecting untruth among Ashram boys  | 
  
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     11 September, 1915  | 
    
     Gave up evening meal due to some Ashramaties objection to the admission of a Harijan in the Ashram  | 
  
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     15 March, 1918  | 
    
     For a rise in the wages of mill workers of Ahmedabad  | 
  
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     06 April, 1919  | 
    
     First day of Satyagraha fight  | 
  
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     13 April, 1919  | 
    
     Began fast for 72 hours for Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar and disturbances at Bombay and Ahmedabad.  | 
  
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     19-21 Nov., 1921  | 
    
     Fasted owing to disturbances at Bombay  | 
  
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     28 November, 1921  | 
    
     Took vow to fast for 24 hours every Monday till Swaraj was won and started it from that day.  | 
  
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     12-16 Feb., 1922  | 
    
     Owing to the massacre at Chauri Chaura  | 
  
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     17 Sep. to 7 Oct., 1924  | 
    
     For communal unity  | 
  
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     24-30 Nov., 1925  | 
    
     For having detected sexual aberrations in some boys and girls of the Ashram.  | 
  
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     22-24 June, 1928  | 
    
     Owing to moral lapse of an Ashram inmate  | 
  
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     20-25 Sept., 1932  | 
    
     In protest against the decision to setup separate electorate for the Harijans.  | 
  
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     03 December, 1932  | 
    
     In protest against Government not allowing a fellow prisoner to do scavenging work  | 
  
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     08-29 May, 1932  | 
    
     For self purification and of his colleagues.  | 
  
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     16-22 August, 1933  | 
    
     In protest against Government’s decision not to grant all the facilities for Harijan work which he was having previously in Jail.  | 
  
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     07-13 August, 1934  | 
    
     An irrate reformer attacked an opponent of the Harijan upliftment movement with a lathi. Started fast to atone.  | 
  
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     03-06 March, 1939  | 
    
     For the breach of promise by the Rajkot ruler.  | 
  
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     12-13 Nov., 1940  | 
    
     Fasted for two days for minor thefts in the Ashram  | 
  
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     05-07 May, 1941  | 
    
     Because of communal riots in Bombay and Ahmedabad  | 
  
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     29 June, 1941  | 
    
     For communal unity  | 
  
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     10-03 March, 1943  | 
    
     In protest against Government’s propaganda that the responsibility of disturbances after Quit India resolution was that of Congress.  | 
  
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     30 November, 1944  | 
    
     Fasted or thought of fasting for one or more days. Details and reason could not be traced.  | 
  
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     20 October, 1946  | 
    
     Probably on account of an error by the person who prepared the fair copy of a letter written during negotiations with the Muslim League.  | 
  
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     15 August, 1947  | 
    
     Against partition of the country  | 
  
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     01 to 03 Sept., 1947  | 
    
     For communal harmony  | 
  
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     11 October, 1947  | 
    
     Birth date according to Vikram calendar. Fasted instead of celebrating it.  |