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    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in Gujarat, India. He trained as a lawyer in London and then practiced law in South Africa for 21 years, where he first employed nonviolent resistance in campaigns for civil rights. In 1915, he returned to India and organized peasants, farmers, and laborers to protest excessive land taxes and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for independence, poverty reduction, women's rights, religious harmony, and ending the untouchability caste system. His nonviolent tactics included the famous 1930 Salt March and 1942 call for the British to leave India. Gandhi's birthday on October 2nd is now a national

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    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in Gujarat, India. He trained as a lawyer in London and then practiced law in South Africa for 21 years, where he first employed nonviolent resistance in campaigns for civil rights. In 1915, he returned to India and organized peasants, farmers, and laborers to protest excessive land taxes and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for independence, poverty reduction, women's rights, religious harmony, and ending the untouchability caste system. His nonviolent tactics included the famous 1930 Salt March and 1942 call for the British to leave India. Gandhi's birthday on October 2nd is now a national

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    MAHATMA GANDHI

    2 OCTOBER
    1869
    ABOUT GANDHI

    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2nd


    October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian
    lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political
    ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead
    the successful campaign for India's
    independence from British rule and in turn inspired
    movements for civil rights and freedom across the
    world. The honorific mahatma "great-souled",
    "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South
    Africa, is now used throughout the world.
    ABOUT GANDHI

    Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, Gandhi trained in


    law at the Inner Temple, London, and was called to the bar at age 22 in
    June 1891. After two uncertain years in India, where he was unable to
    start a successful law practice, he moved to South Africa in 1893 to
    represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit. He went on to live in South
    Africa for 21 years. It was in South Africa that Gandhi raised a family
    and first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.
    In 1915, aged 45, he returned to India. 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, and above all for
    achieving swaraj or self-rule.
    ABOUT GANDHI

    Also in 1921, Gandhi adopted the use of an Indian loincloth


    (short dhoti) and a shawl (in the winter) woven with yarn
    hand-spun on a traditional Indian spinning wheel (charkha) as
    a sign of identification with India's rural poor. He also began to
    live modestly in a self-sufficient residential community, ate
    simple vegetarian food, and undertook long fasts as a means of
    self-purification and political protest. Bringing anti-colonial
    nationalism to the common Indians, Gandhi led them in
    challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km
    (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930 and in calling for the
    British to quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned many times
    and for many years in both South Africa and India.
    ABOUT GANDHI

    Gandhi's birthday, 2 October, is commemorated in


    India as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and
    worldwide as the International Day of Nonviolence.
    Gandhi is commonly, though not formally, considered
    the Father of the Nation in India and was commonly
    called Bapu endearment for father, papa
    QUOTES OF GANDHI
    QUOTES OF GANDHI
    QUOTES OF GANDHI
    QUOTES OF GANDHI
    THANK YOU

    BY B.THAPODHAN REDDY
    5 CLASS
    B SECTION
    ROLL NO 32

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