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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, near Bombay.
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Gandhi got married at the age of 13.
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At 19, he went abroad to study.
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Gandhi returns to India.
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Unable to succeed in Bombay, he went to South Africa in 1893.
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He founded the Natal Indian Congress to fight for Indian rights.
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During the Boer War, he raised an ambulance corps and served the South African government.
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Gandhi gave aid against the Zulu revolt.
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Gandhi began his peaceful revolution.
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Gandhi becomes leader in the newly formed Indian National Congress political party.
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He launches a noncooperation campaign against Britain.
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Gandhi was led to his imprisonment from 1922 to 1924.
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Gandhi made a protest of a salt tax. He was jailed again.
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He retired as head of the party but remained its actual leader.
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He was imprisoned for the third time, from 1942 to 1944.
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Gandhi’s finally won India independence.
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Gandhi was killed by a maddened Hindu.
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Nearly 50 years after his assassination, the ashes of Gandhi were spread in the Ganges river.