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BIRTH OF GANDHI
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CHILDHOOD GANDHI
As a teenager he was a shy young man who went unnoticed. At the age of thirteen, he married a young Indian woman of the same age, Kasturba Makharji, with whom he had four children. -
GANDHI STUDY
In his youth, Gandhi was a mediocre student in Porbandar. Later in Rajkot, in 1887, he managed to barely pass the entrance examination of the University of Mumbai, enrolling in the School of Samaldas, in Bhavnagar. -
GANDHI SPECIALIZATION
In 1893 he accepted a one-year employment contract with an Indian company operating in Natal, South Africa. He was interested in the situation of the 150,000 compatriots who resided there, fighting against the laws that discriminate against Indians in South Africa through passive resistance and civil disobedience. -
COMPUSE GANDHI
He extended his stay in this country, founding the Natal Indian Congress Party in 1894. Through this organization he was able to unite the Indian community in South Africa into a homogeneous political force, flooding the press and the government with allegations of violations of the law. -
RACIAL PROBLEMS
Arriving in South Africa, on his way to Pretoria, he was forcibly removed from the train at Pietermaritzburg station because he refused to move from first class to third class, which was intended for black people. -
GANDHI REVOCATION
En 1906, el gobierno de Transvaal promulgó una ley que obligaba a todos los indios a registrarse. Esto llevó a una protesta masiva en Johannesburgo, donde Gandhi adoptó por primera vez la plataforma llamada satyagraha ('apego o devoción a la verdad') que consistía en una protesta no violenta. -
BACK TO INDIA
His return to India came in 1915. The fight for the rights of the Indian community in South Africa was seen as an act of heroism. At once all of India knew who Mahatma Gandhi was. -
PILGRIMAGE GANDHI
After 24 days of pilgrimage and more than 300 kilometers behind him, Gandhi reached the coastal town of Dandi. There, he scooped up salt water in his hands in a gesture of defiance of the salt monopoly. -
INDEPENDENCE GANDHI
With the end of World War II came the independence of India in 1947. India was divided into Hindus (India) and Muslims (Pakistan). -
DEATH OF GANDHI
On January 30, 1948, Nathuram Godse, Hindu radical assaulted him and shot him down. The murderer and his accomplice were sentenced to death and executed in November 1949.6
