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Gandhi And The Life Of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as Bapu (the father of the nation) and Mahatma (the great soul) was born at Porbandar on 2nd October, 1869. Karamchand was his father and Putlibai was his mother. His father was a hereditary diwan of a petty princely state in erstwhile Kathiwara.His mother was a pious, God-fearing, devout and simple lady given to traditional religious practices such as prayers, reciting of God’s names, counting rosary beads etc. They belonged to the caste of Vaishya.In London, he had a very unhappy and restless life as he felt like a square peg in a round hole in the so sophisticated English society and milieu. He remained almost an outcast although he tried to ape the English youth.All his attempts to become a fashionable English gentleman again proved a misadventure as his attempts to smoke and eating meat had proved earlier in India. Therefore, he gave up these attempts of becoming a gentleman and decided to follow his own nature. There he read Barnard Shaw’s “Plea for Vegetarianism” and declared, “From the day of reading this book, I may claim to have become a vegetarian by choice—the spread of which became my mission.”He also set up a vegetarian club there and one day invited Sir Adwin Arnold to become the club’s Vice- president. In 1891, he passed his Bar-at-Law examination and in the summer of the same year returned to India, to his great relief, and he was called to the Bar at Bombay but again as a practitioner of law, he proved a miserable

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