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Merchant Caste Gujarat Western India Inner Temple: Swaraj

Gandhi was born into a Hindu merchant family in Gujarat, India and trained as a lawyer in London. He first employed nonviolent civil disobedience while working as a lawyer for Indians in South Africa fighting for civil rights. After returning to India in 1915, he organized peasants, farmers, and laborers to protest excessive land tax and discrimination. Gandhi subsequently assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921 and led nationwide campaigns for reducing poverty, expanding women's rights, increasing religious and ethnic harmony, abolishing untouchability, and, most importantly, achieving self-rule or Swaraj from British control, such as through challenging the British salt tax via a 400 km march to the coast.

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Merchant Caste Gujarat Western India Inner Temple: Swaraj

Gandhi was born into a Hindu merchant family in Gujarat, India and trained as a lawyer in London. He first employed nonviolent civil disobedience while working as a lawyer for Indians in South Africa fighting for civil rights. After returning to India in 1915, he organized peasants, farmers, and laborers to protest excessive land tax and discrimination. Gandhi subsequently assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921 and led nationwide campaigns for reducing poverty, expanding women's rights, increasing religious and ethnic harmony, abolishing untouchability, and, most importantly, achieving self-rule or Swaraj from British control, such as through challenging the British salt tax via a 400 km march to the coast.

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Born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in

law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an
expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his
return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest
against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National
Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights,
building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, but above all for achieving Swaraj or selfrule.
Gandhi famously led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km
(250 mi) Dandi

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