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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
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 was arranged since they were both children. -
Education
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. He was not there long, because he took advantage of the opportunity presented to him to study in England, a country he considered "the cradle of philosophers and poets, the center of civilization. -
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. -
What did?
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. Indian Civil Rights and Evidence of British Discrimination in South Africa. -
Racism
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. Later, while riding a stagecoach, he was beaten by the driver because a white-skinned passenger refused to access his seat. In addition, on this trip he suffered other humiliations as he was denied accommodation in various hotels due to his race -
what do i belong to
From 1919 he openly belonged to the front of the Indian nationalist movement. He established new methods of social struggle such as the hunger strike and in his programs he rejected the armed struggle and preached ahimsa (non-violence) as a means of resisting British rule. He widely defended and promoted total fidelity to the dictates of conscience, even reaching civil disobedience if necessary; in addition, he fought for the return to the old Hindu traditions. -
Claims
In 1931 he participated in the London Conference, where he claimed the independence of India. -
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. -
Your intermediary
In 1942 London sent Richard Stafford Cripps as an intermediary to negotiate with the Nationalists, but when a satisfactory solution was not found, they radicalized their positions. -
death of his wife
Gandhi and his wife Kasturba were deprived of their liberty and placed under house arrest at the Aga Khan Palace, where she died in 1944, -
Indian independence
With the end of World War II came the independence of India in 1947. India was divided into Hindus (India) and Muslims (Pakistan). There was a huge exodus and a great massacre in which hundreds of thousands of people died. -
Your Death
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
