Mahatma Gandhi's Life and Achievements

• Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in the town of Porbandar in Gujarat, India.
• He was educated at the Inner Temple in London and became a lawyer in 1891.
• He moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit, and lived there for 21 years.
• He became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1921 and led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
• In the months following independence, he undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence.
• The last of these, begun in Delhi on January 12, 1948, had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.
• Gandhi died on January 30, 1948.

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