Mahatma Gandhi's Life and Legacy

• Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat, India.
• He trained as a lawyer and began his political career in South Africa.
• He returned to India in 1915 and began leading campaigns for civil rights and freedom.
• In 1921, Gandhi became the leader of the Indian National Congress and led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
• Gandhi adopted the traditional Indian dress of a dhoti and began living a self-sufficient lifestyle as a way of identifying with the Indian rural poor.
• He undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence in India.
• The last of these, begun in January 1948, also 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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