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