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Mahatma gandhi

By alejo2112

  • was born

    was born
    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, a coastal city in Kathiawad (now part of the state of Gujarat) on October 2, 1869. He was the youngest son of his parents, Karamchand and Putlibai

  • CHILDHOOD

    CHILDHOOD
    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.

  • STUDIES

    STUDIES
    Mahatma He managed to pass the university entrance exam with great effort. Soon after, he moved to England to study law in London in 1888.

  • SPECIALIZATION

    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.

  • RATIONAL PROBLEMS

    RATIONAL PROBLEMS
    Arriving in South Africa on his way to Pretoria, he was forcibly removed from the train at Pietermaritzburg station because he refused to upgrade from first class to third class, which was intended for blacks. Later, while riding a stagecoach, he was struck by the driver because a white-skinned passenger refused to access his seat.

  • REVOCATION

    REVOCATION
    In 1906 the Transvaal government enacted a law that required all Indians to register. This led to a massive protest in Johannesburg, where Gandhi first adopted the platform called satyagraha ('attachment or devotion to the truth') which consisted of a non-violent protest. Gandhi insisted that the Indians openly but without violence defy the enacted law, suffering whatever punishment the government wanted to impose.

  • ARRESTED

    ARRESTED
    Gandhi was arrested in March and sentenced to serve 6 years in prison for a campaign of civil disobedience.

  • SALT MARCH

    SALT MARCH
    April 6, 1930, he starred in an important non-violent protest, known as the salt march (salt satiagraha), which would inspire movements such as that of the American Martin Luther King

  • WORLD WAR

    WORLD WAR
    In the world war, Ghandi, had given a contribution but in the policy of indifference, and not of violence against the British, but the leaders did not agree, so they decided to attack in masses. Gandhi decided that India could not be in a world war, but in a fight for freedom.

  • DEATH

    DEATH
    On January 30, Gandhi was assassinated at the age of 78 by a fanatic from New Delhi, India.