Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World (1954)

Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Kathiawar, India, which in that time was part of British Empire. Gandhi was unfortunately killed by a fanatic in 1948. His father and mother were Karamchand Gandhi, a chief minister and Putlibai Gandhi, a deeply religious woman who fasted regularly. Gandhi studied law and advocated for the civil rights of Indians. Gandhi became a leader of India’s Independence movement.

Gandhi, also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born in the present state of Gujarat on October 2,

There’s no doubt about it, that Gandhi was a great mean, out spoken and very influential but he wasn’t always that way. As I was reading I learned that while Gandhi was away at school studying law, his mother who he dearly loved and called a saint had passed yet his family did not tell him of her condition because they knew he would be

Throughout the 1940’s, Gandhi fought for independence that eventually broke down barriers of racial inequality. As leader of the movement, he was imprisoned multiple times for going against the law through peaceful protests, boycotts with thousands of his followers, and reasoning with the government, although it was all for a good cause. On August 15, 1947, he was eventually able to gain sovereignty of Indians in South America and England. His legacy was influential in the sense that he proved many people

Born on October 2nd, 1869, Mahatma Gandhi studied the law and spoke for the civil rights of the citizens of India both in India and South Africa to be freed from Great Britain. Gandhi became a leader of the Indians fight for independence, organizing boycotts against the British, in forms of civil disobedience. He was killed in 1948.

Gandhi was born in 1869 in British-ruled India. He became a lawyer, moving to South Africa to practice for a year. While there, Gandhi witnessed the intense racial tensions occurring in the nation. His earliest encounter with discrimination was in Pretoria, when he was forcibly removed from a train after refusing to move to the back. This initial action of civil disobedience made Gandhi “think of his duty to stay back and fight for his rights.” In 1906, Gandhi and his supporters started a peaceful protest called Satyagraha, against the South African Transvaal Government’s restrictions on Indian rights, and they’re struggle eventually bore fruit in 1913. Gandhi also used Satyagraha in India in 1930, protesting the British Salt Acts, which prevented Indians from collecting or selling salt. He, along with thousands of Indians, marched 241 miles to the coastal city of Dandi, where Gandhi made salt out of sea water. Despite being beaten and arrested, Gandhi and his supporters achieved success by the lessening of the Salt Acts in 1931. Because of Gandhi’s civil disobedience movements, Indians achieved the rights that they deserved, both in South Africa and in

Before all of his, Gandhi was born on October 2nd 1869, in Porbandar, Kathiawar, India which was at the time apart of the British empire. He had what seemed to be a short childhood, marrying at thirteen years old in an arranged marriage with Kasturba Makanji. This soon caused his early rebel-teen years which was, “smoking, eating meat, and stealing change from household servants.” (Biography.com Editors 1). He had little interest in school, but kept average grades due to his father’s expectations in his academics. He went on to study western culture in London, England for three years and struggled through his studies. While staying there he started reading a variety of sacred texts about different religions, learning about the different cultures and beliefs of the world. Although he had a hard and difficult early life, he still came through to only break through bigger barriers in his future.

Mohandas Gandhi, later called Mahatma Gandhi, was born on October 2,1869 in Porbandar, which is the present day state of Gujarat, India (Andrews

Mahatma Gandhi, was born October 2nd, 1869 to a wealthy Indian family in Porbandar, Gujarat India. His father, Karamchand Gandhi, was a well-respected man that held the political position of, Chief Minister of Porbandar. Mahtma’s mother, Putlibai Gandhi, was a kind woman and devote Jainist. Her gentle nature provided Mahatma with a compassionate upbringing that instilled a non-violent, mutual tolerance attitude. She stressed vegetarianism and was also known for fasting for days, almost to the point of starvation. His parents were also very traditional in the sense that they had an arranged marriage for him to Kasturba Makhanji when he was just 13.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 to a Hindu Modh Baniya family. In India they often called him “Bapu” and “Gandhiji” which actually comes from the word “Gujarati” meaning father, he was the Father of the Nation. Gandhi became an expatriate lawyer in South Africa and that’s when he decided that he would fight nonviolently in the struggle for civil rights in India. He would help peasants, farmers, labourers protest against land-tax and discrimination. He led nationwide campaigns for poverty, women’s rights, building religious amity, and overall self-rule.

The leader of the peace, Gandhi, had been imprisoned for his acts of “crimes against the British government. He was tried for conspiring to overthrow the government. Mohandas pleaded guilty; unfortunately he was imprisoned for six years. He fought for his country in a non-violent way and owned up to his actions and did not run away from the consequences. Gandhi was released two years later and the remaining sentence was dropped.

Long ago on October 2nd 1869 Gandhi was born. He grew up in Porbandar India. Gandhi decided in 1888 to marry Kasturda Gandhi. Soon after he set away to London to study the figure of law. He got offered an office in South Africa, and stayed for 20 years. He went into law because he believed in non violence

Mohandas Gandhi was an influential leader for India’s independence, whose acts to gain Indian rights, led to him getting assassinated by Hindus that were against his ideas and motives. As Gandhi moved to South Africa to study law, he experienced racism and South African laws that restricted the rights of Indian laborers. He was removed from a first class railway compartment and thrown off of a train. This was the “moment of truth” that made Gandhi decide to defend his rights as an Indian man and fight injustice. Gandhi formed the Natal Indian Congress (NIC), which drew attention world wide to the struggle Indians were facing in India.

The first reason why Gandhi’s death was unjustified was because Gandhi wanted only what was best for for his fellow Indians, and his love for his country and its people were what motivated him to do what he did. An example of him wanting what was best for his fellow Indians is Gandhi leading several campaigns in which he intended to make public of what unfortunate situation Indians were in inside their “Country.” This include the protest against the South African government’s refusal to allow for Indians to vote. He was significant to the the founding of the Natal Indian Congress in 1894. This is an organization that became center in 1894 and helped political resistance develop over a seven year period which began in 1906 (All stated in the article, "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India."). Another example was that in future years, is in 1913, Gandhi negotiated with colonial laborers with Jan Smuts. Smuts was an Afrikaner (Afrikaans-speaking person in South Africa, especially one descended from the Dutch and Huguenot settlers of the 17th century) and a racist who later became colonial secretary after the Boer War. The final decision between the two managed to gain Indians rights by a little (All stated in the article, “The Problem with Purity.”)

Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi was born during the British rule in India on October 2, 1869. Gandhi in the year of 1888 was sent to England to pursue law, where he developed interest in the philosophy of nonviolence as expressed in the holy Bhagawad Gita, a scared text of Hindu scriptures. However after passing the bar, he found little accomplishment in his attempt to practice law in India, which is when he accepted a position in South Africa, where he assisted on a lawsuit. (Mohandas Gandhi, 2015)