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Change is born
On Oct 2 1869 in porbandar, a coastal town which was then part of the Bombay Presidency, British India. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, or Mahatma Gandhi was born. -
Gandhi was married
In May 1883, when Gandhi was 13 he was married to 14-year-old Kasturbai Makhanji (her first name was usually shortened to "Kasturba", and affectionately to "Ba") in an arranged child marriage, according to the custom of the region. In the process, he lost a year at school. When Gandhi was 15 they were to have their first child but sadly it only lived a few days, but they later had 4 more sons. -
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Gandhi going to school
Gandhi travelled to London, England, to study law at University College London, where he studied Indian law and jurisprudence and to train as a barrister at the Inner Temple. His time in London was influenced by a vow he had made to his mother upon leaving India, in the presence of a Jain monk, to observe the Hindu precepts of abstinence from meat and alcohol as well as of promiscuity. He also practiced law in
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to India
after living three years in South Africa, Gandhi sailed to India with the intention of bringing his wife and sons back with him. While in India, there was a bubonic plague outbreak. Since it was then believed that poor sanitation was the cause of the spread of the plague, Gandhi offered to help inspect latrines and offer suggestions for better sanitation. -
Durban
In January 1897, when Gandhi landed in Durban, a mob of white settlers attacked him and he escaped only through the efforts of the wife of the police superintendent. He, however, refused to press charges against any member of the mob, stating it was one of his principles not to seek redress for a personal wrong in a court
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Ambulance Corps
Gandhi was in the Ambulance Corps during the Second Boer War. Which was fought 11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902. -
British recruiting Indians
In 1906, the British declared war against the Zulu kingdom in Natal, Gandhi encouraged the British to recruit Indians.He argued that Indians should support the war efforts in order to legitimise their claims to full citizenship. The British accepted Gandhi's offer to let a detachment of 20 Indians volunteer as a stretcher-bearer corps to treat wounded British soldiers. This corps was commanded by Gandhi and operated for less than two months. -
Satyagraha
the Transvaal government created a new Act compelling registration of the colony's Indian population. At a mass protest meeting held in Johannesburg on 11 September that year, Gandhi adopted his still evolving methodology of Satyagraha a non-violent protest, for the first time. He urged
Indians to defy the new law and to suffer the punishments for doing so.
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Indian national congress
Gandhi became the leader of the indian national congress in 1921 -
salt march
Because of the tax on salt gandhi and thousands of others took the 241 mile march to the coast it took 24 days, but they made it to the sea and picked up their own salt, breaking the law -
Gandhi-Irwin Pact
The government, represented by Lord Edward Irwin, decided to negotiate with Gandhi. The British Government agreed to free all political prisoners, in return for the suspension of the civil disobedience movement. The conference was a disappointment to Gandhi and the nationalists, because it focused on the Indian princes and Indian minorities rather than on a transfer of power. -
Gandhi and the Harijans
On 8 May 1933, Gandhi began a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement. This new campaign was not universally embraced within the Dalit community, as Ambedkar condemned Gandhi's use of the term Harijans as saying that Dalits were socially immature, and that privileged caste Indians played a paternalistic role. -
Effect on WW2
The INC refused to support the war unless Britain promised independence , but Britain refused. Mahatma Gandhi, expressed strong opposition against Nazism and Fascism but termed Britain's "war to save democracy" as hypocrisy since it was denying democratic rights and individual liberties to Indians. -
Bombay
Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee were arrested in Bombay by the British on 9 August 1942. Gandhi was held for two years in the Aga Khan Palace in Pune. It was here that Gandhi suffered two terrible blows in his personal life. His 50-year old secretary Mahadev Desai died of a heart attack 6 days later and his wife Kasturba died after 18 months imprisonment on 22 February 1944,six weeks later Gandhi suffered a severe malaria attack. -
Gandhi was killed
Gandhi was shot and killed by an hindu extremist named Nathuram Godse, while he was on his way to Pakistan. He believed Gandhi was betraying his own people, so they came up with a huge plan to kill him. Why he killed Gandhi
