Mahatma Gandhi's Life and Legacy

• Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat, India.
• He was educated at the Inner Temple in London and was called to the bar in 1891.
• Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit.
• He lived in South Africa for 21 years.
• Gandhi first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights in 1915.
• In 1921, Gandhi led the Indian National Congress and campaigned for various social reforms.
• Gandhi adopted the short dhoti as a symbol of identification with India's rural poor.
• Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence.
• Gandhi was imprisoned many times and for many years in both South Africa and India.
• Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged in the early 1940s by a Muslim nationalism which demanded a separate homeland for Muslims within British India.
• In 1947, Britain granted independence to India and the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions.
• Gandhi visited the affected areas after independence to try to alleviate distress.
• Gandhi died on January 30, 1948 at the age of 80.

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