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Birth and Parentage
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born at Porbandar, a coastal city in Kathiawad (now a part of the Gujarat State) on the 2nd October 1869. He was the youngest child of his parents, Karamchand and Putlibai. -
Childhood
Mohan attended Primary School at Porbandar. When he was seven, his family moved to Rajkot. He was a mediocre student, was shy and avoided any company. He read little besides the text books and had no love for outdoor games. He had no love for outdoor games. However, he was truthful, honest, sensitive and was alert about his character. -
Youth
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. This link has been arranged since they were both children. -
Gandhi in England
Gandhi reached England by the end of September 1888. Everything was strange to him. He was shy and diffident, could not speak English fluently and was ignorant of British manners. Naturally, loneliness and homesickness gripped him. Gandhi became a vegetarian for life. It was difficult to get vegetarian food. Friends persuaded him to break the vow of vegetarianism but he stuck to it. -
Returns to the Indian
He returned to India, Probandar in 1891 after obtaining his title and he found his family disintegrated: the mother had died shortly before and the Gandhi had lost all influence in the princely court. As a lawyer he did not find many prospects, as his first professional performance ended in a humiliating failure, as he muted as he addressed the court It was then that a Muslim commercial factory offered him a contract to attend a case of the company in the South African city of Durban. -
stage in South Africa (1893-1915)
In 1893, the young Gandhi moved to Durban (South Africa), where a company hired him as a lawyer.There he quickly became interested in the situation of his Indian compatriots. Soon he felt the discrimination on his own skin. While traveling by train in South Africa. After his employment contract was completed,Gandhi prepared to return to India. Before his departure, he learned that a law was being drafted that would prohibit Indian citizens from voting.Then he decided to postpone his departure. -
The civil rights of Indians in the African country
Mahatma Gandhi founded the Indian Party of the Congress of Natal in order to bring together the entire Indian community. Through this formation, the Indians began to express their first protests against discrimination and inequality. in 1894 to create an Indian political party to defend its rights. After 22 years of nonviolent protests in South Africa Gandhi gained power and respect enough to negotiate with South African General Jan Christian Smuts a solution to the Indian conflict. -
Returns to the Indian again
In 1915 Gandhi returned to India, where he continued to promulgate his religious, philosophical and especially political values. Two major social protests stood out from the last few years: the salt march (1930) and the claim of India's independence from the British empire in the context of World War II (1939-1945), along with all the years of nonviolent struggle, they finally led to India's official independence on August 15, 1947. -
Death
A few months later, on January 30, 1948, Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, an ultra-rightist Hindu fanatic related to the government, who found in Gandhi an obstacle to lift his project of the rise of Hinduism to the detriment of other beliefs and religions. In this way, for defending his ideology of an egalitarian society, Gandhi would be assassinated at the age of 78.
