Mahatma Gandhi's Life and Achievements

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Hvor ble Mahatma Gandhi født?

Mahatma Gandhi ble født i Gujarat, India den 2. oktober 1869.

Hva gjorde Mahatma Gandhi da han kom tilbake til India i 1915?

Da Mahatma Gandhi kom tilbake til India i 1915, organiserte han bønder, jordbrukere og urbane arbeidere til å protestere mot ekstrem landsskatt og diskriminering.

Når døde Mahatma Gandhi?

Mahatma Gandhi døde den 30. januar 1948, 80 år gammel, etter å ha fullført sin siste sultestreik.

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Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat, India.
He trained as a lawyer and began practicing in India in 1891 but was unsuccessful.
He moved to South Africa in 1893 and began to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit.
He went on to live in South Africa for 21 years.
In 1915, he returned to India and soon set about organizing peasants, farmers, and urban laborers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination.
He assumed leadership 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, above all, achieving swaraj or self-rule.
In the months following independence in 1947, he undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence.
He died on January 30, 1948, at the age of 80, after completing his last hunger strike.