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Mahatma Gandhi Biography

Biography
Full Name	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Childhood Name	Manu or Monia
Nick Name	Mahatma
	Gandhi ji
	Bapu
	Father of Nation
Date of Birth	2 October, 1869
Birth Place	Porbandar, Kathiawar (Now known as Gujarat)
Date of Death	30 January, 1948
Death Place	New Delhi, India
Cause of Death	Shoot by Gun (By Nathuram Godse)
Age	78 Years
Height	168 cm
Marital Status	Married
Profession	Author
	Philosopher
	Politician
	Advocate
	Freedom Fighter
	Revolutionary
	Journalist
	Peace Activist
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Bald
Nationality	Indian
Home Town	Porbandar, Gujarat, India
Education Qualification	Barrister-in-Law
School	Alfred High School, Rajkot
	A High School, Ahmedabad
College/University	Samaldas College, Bhavnagar (Now in Gujarat)
	Inner Temple, London
	UCL Faculty of Laws, University, London
Religion	Hinduism
Caste	Modh Mania
Food Habit	Vegetarian (Quit Non-Veg.)
Hobbies	Homespun, Reading Biographies
Alcoholic	No (Quit)
Marriage Date	May, 1833
Age at the time of Marriage	Mahatma Gandhi- 13 years Kasturba Gandhi- 14 Years
Marriage Type	Arrange
Family
Wife	Kasturba Gandhi (Kasturbai Makhanji Kapadia), (1869 - 1944)
Son(s)	Harilal
	Manilal
	Ramdas
	Devdas
Daughter(s)	Laxmi (Adopted)(Indian)
	Madeleine Slade aka Mirabehn(Adopted) (British)
Parents	Father- Karamchand Gandhi
	Mother- Putlibai
Brother(s)	Laxmidas Karamchand Gandhi
	Karsandas Gandhi
Sister(s)	Raliatbehl Gandhi
Something Favourite Of Mahatma Gandhi
Persons	Gautama Buddha
	Harish Chandra
	His mother Putlibai
Author	Leo Tolstoy
Food	Boiled Vegetables
Colour	Orange
Some Famous Books Written by Mahatma Gandhi
Title	ISBN(Unless Noted Otherwise)
All Men are Brothers	8172290004
Diet and Diet Reform	8172290624
Gandhi’s Autobiography- Abridged	8172290942
The Bhagavad Gita	8122200079
The Story of my Experiments with Truth – An Autobiography	8172290810
Trusteeship	8172290918
Truth is God	8172290039
Satyagraha in South Africa	0934676038
Unto this Last – A Paraphrase	-

Early Life

  From his childhood, Mahatma Gandhi was very fond of reading stories like Shravan Kumar and Raja Harishchandra. In his autobiography, he admitted that these stories left an indelible impression on his mind. He used to act on these stories many times during his school days. He writes: "I acted Harishchandra several times without a number." Gandhi's early self-identification as the supreme values ​​with truth and love is available to these epic characters.

Young Mahatma Gandhi

  Mahatma Gandhi's father Karamchand was a Hindu and his mother Putlibai was from a pranami Vaishnava Hindu family. Mod Baniya was of the caste of Gandhi's father Vaishya. His mother came from the medieval Krishna devotional-based Pranami tradition, whose religious texts include the Bhagavad Gita, the Bhagavata Purana and a collection of 14 texts. Gandhi was very impressed with his mother. She was a very pious woman.

Karamchan Gandhi

   In 1874, Gandhi's father Karamchand left Porbandar for a small kingdom in Rajkot, where he became a consultant to its ruler Thakur Sahab. In 1876, Karamchand became the Diwan of Rajkot and was succeeded as the Diwan of Porbandar by his brother Tulsidas. His family rejoined him in Rajkot.

   At the age of 9, Gandhi entered a local school in Rajkot near his home. There he studied the concepts of arithmetic, history, Gujarati language and geography. At the age of 11, he enrolled in high school in Rajkot. He was an average student. His only companions were books and school lessons. He was not interested in sports.

   In May 1883, 13-year-old Mohandas was married to 14-year-old Kasturbai Makhanji Kapadia in the same area with traditional rituals. Their marriage was a joint event, where their brother and cousin were also married. Recalling their wedding day, he once said, "As we did not know much about marriage, for us it meant wearing only new clothes, eating sweets and playing with relatives." In late 1885, Gandhi's father Karamchand died. Gandhi was then 16 years old.

kasturba Gandhi With Her Children

  In November 1887, the 18-year-old Gandhi graduated from high school in Ahmedabad. In January 1888, he enrolled at Samaldas College in Bhavnagar State, then the sole degree-granting institution of higher education in the region. But he dropped out and returned to his family in Porbandar.

Mahatma Gandhi in London

  At UCL, Mahatma Gandhi studied law and jurisprudence and was invited to enroll in the Inner Temple with the intention of becoming a barrister. His time in London was influenced by his mother's fast. He tried to adopt "English" customs, Gandhi was a vegetarian and he often starved, until he found one of the few vegetarian restaurants in London. Impressed by the writings of Henry Salt, he joined the London Vegetarian Society.

Mahatma Gandhi in London

  At the age of 22, Gandhi was called to the bar in June 1891, but then he had to leave for India, because his mother had died. His attempts to establish a law practice in Bombay failed because he was psychologically unable to cross-examine witnesses. He returned to Rajkot to make a modest living drafting petitions for the plaintiffs, but was forced to stop when he ran behind Sam Sunny, a British officer.

Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa

   After struggling to find work as a lawyer in India, Gandhi obtained a one-year contract to perform legal services in South Africa. In April 1893, he sailed for Durban in the South African state of Natal. When Gandhi arrived in South Africa, he was quickly appalled by the discrimination and racial segregation faced by Indian immigrants at the hands of white British and Boer authorities. Upon his first appearance in a Durban courtroom, Gandhi was asked to remove his turban. He refused and left the court instead. The Natal Advertiser mocked him in print as “an unwelcome visitor.”

Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa

Role in Indian Independence

  Mahatma Gandhi returned to India in 1915, at the request of Gopal Krishna Gokhale. He gained an international reputation as a prominent Indian nationalist, theorist and community organizer. Gandhi joined the Indian National Congress. Gokhale was a prominent leader of the Congress party. Gandhi adopted Gokhale's liberal approach based on British Whiggish traditions and adapted it to look Indian. Gandhi assumed leadership of the Congress in 1920. Tensions escalated until Gandhi demanded immediate independence in 1942 and the British responded by imprisoning him and thousands of Congress leaders.

Mahatma Gandhi With Pt. Jawahar lal Nehru

   After World War I, in 1919, Gandhi supported the Ottoman Empire and sought political support from Muslims in the fight against British imperialism. Before Gandhi's initiative, communal disputes and religious riots between Hindus and Muslims were common in British India. With this attempt by Gandhi, after the end of the First World War, the British government had offered to the Indians a slight improvement rather than self-government. Gandhi announced his Satyagraha (civil disobedience) intentions. The British colonial authorities made their counter move by passing the Row law Act to block Gandhi's movement. By this act, the British government could arrest any participant who participated in the Satyagraha movement. Gandhi felt that Hindu-Muslim cooperation was necessary for political progress against the British. He took advantage of the Khilafat movement, then he campaigned for Hindu-Muslim unity. After this, Gandhi gained a strong Muslim support. However, Hindu leaders including Rabindranath Tagore questioned Gandhi's leadership as they were largely against recognizing or supporting the Sunni Islamic caliphate in Turkey. After Gandhi's growing Muslim support, he temporarily halted Hindu-Muslim communal violence, supporting the cause of the Caliphate. By the end of 1922, the Khilafat movement had collapsed. Turkey's Ataturk had ended the Caliphate, the Khilafat Movement, and Muslim support for Gandhi largely disappeared. Muslim leaders and representatives left Gandhi and his Congress.

  With his book Hind Swaraj (1909), Gandhi declared at the age of 40 that British rule was established with the cooperation of Indians in India and if Indians refused to side with the British, British rule would collapse. Will go and swaraj will come. Gandhi went to a meeting in Madras in September 1921 with Dr. Annie Besant. Earlier, in Madurai, on 21 September 1921, Gandhi first adopted the loi-cloth as a symbol of his identification with the poor of India. In February 1919, at a meeting of Satyagraha going on in Delhi, British officials set fire to unarmed people, where thousands of people had burnt to death.

  In 1906, Gandhi launched his first mass civil disobedience campaign, which he called the "Satyagraha", in response to new restrictions on the rights of Indians by the South African Transvaal government, including a refusal to recognize Hindu marriage. After years of protests, the government jailed hundreds of Indians, including Gandhi, in 1913. Under pressure, the South African government accepted conciliation talks by Gandhi and General John Christian Smuts that included the recognition of Hindu marriage and the abolition of a state tax for Indians.

  Gandhi opposed the Salt Acts of Britain for his return to active politics in 1930, which not only prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, but a heavy tax was imposed which hit the country's poor particularly harshly. Gandhi planned a new Satyagraha expedition, The Salt March (Dandi Yatra), entering the Arabian Sea up to a distance of 390 kilometers / 240 miles, where he would collect salt in symbolic defence of the government's monopoly. Wearing a homespun white shawl and sandals and carrying a stick, Gandhi embarked on his religious retreat in Sabarmati on March 12, 1930 with a few dozen followers.

Mahatma Gandhi in Salt March

 By the time he reached the coastal city of Dandi 24 days later, the number of marchers had increased, and Gandhi broke the law by making salt from evaporated seawater. The 60,000 Indians who joined the Dandi Yatra were imprisoned for breaking the Salt Acts, including Gandhi, who was imprisoned in May 1930. Nevertheless, opposition to the Salt Act made Gandhi an accomplished figure throughout the world. He was named Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1930.