"An eye for an eye only ends up making the world blind."
-Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was born in Porbandar, Gujarat in North West India on October 2, 1869. He was born into a Hidno Modh family and His grandfather, Uttamchand Gandhi, and father, Karamchand Gandhi occupied the high office of the "Diwan" (Chief Minister) of Porbandar.
Gandhi studied law at Samaldas College in Bhavnagar, Gujarat and University College in London and came to advocate for the rights of Indians, both at home and in South Africa. He became a leader of India's independence movement; organizing boycotts against British institutions in peaceful forms of civil disobedience. Gandhi is most known for being the primary leader of India's independence movement and also the architect of a form of civil disobedience that would influence the world.
What did Gandhi do?
In 1914, Gandhi returned to India, where he supported the Home Rule movement, and became leader of the Indian National Congress. Where he ended up advocating a policy of non-violent non-co-operation to achieve independence. His goal was to help poor farmers and laborers protest oppressive taxation and discrimination upon them. He struggled to alleviate poverty, liberate women and put an end to discrimination, with the objective being self-rule for India.
Following his civil disobedience campaign (1919-1922), he was jailed for conspiracy (1922-1924). In 1930, he led a 200 mile march to the sea to collect salt in symbolic defiance of the government's monopoly. On the date he was released from prison (1931), he attended the London Round Table Conference on the Indian
constitutional reform. In 1946, he negotiated with the Cabinet Mission, which recommended the new constitutional structure. After independence (1947), he tried to stop the Hindu-Muslim conflict in Bengal, which led to his assassination in Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic.
Gandhi studied law at Samaldas College in Bhavnagar, Gujarat and University College in London and came to advocate for the rights of Indians, both at home and in South Africa. He became a leader of India's independence movement; organizing boycotts against British institutions in peaceful forms of civil disobedience. Gandhi is most known for being the primary leader of India's independence movement and also the architect of a form of civil disobedience that would influence the world.
What did Gandhi do?
In 1914, Gandhi returned to India, where he supported the Home Rule movement, and became leader of the Indian National Congress. Where he ended up advocating a policy of non-violent non-co-operation to achieve independence. His goal was to help poor farmers and laborers protest oppressive taxation and discrimination upon them. He struggled to alleviate poverty, liberate women and put an end to discrimination, with the objective being self-rule for India.
Following his civil disobedience campaign (1919-1922), he was jailed for conspiracy (1922-1924). In 1930, he led a 200 mile march to the sea to collect salt in symbolic defiance of the government's monopoly. On the date he was released from prison (1931), he attended the London Round Table Conference on the Indian
constitutional reform. In 1946, he negotiated with the Cabinet Mission, which recommended the new constitutional structure. After independence (1947), he tried to stop the Hindu-Muslim conflict in Bengal, which led to his assassination in Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic.