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True or false: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi nait le 2 octobre 1869?
True or false: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi nait le 2 octobre 1869?
True or false: Gandhi a commencé à travailler en Inde en 1891?
True or false: Gandhi a commencé à travailler en Inde en 1891?
True or false: Gandhi est mort en 1948?
True or false: Gandhi est mort en 1948?
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- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in the coastal town of Porbandar, Gujarat, to a Hindu family.
- He trained as a lawyer and began practicing in India in 1891, but was unsuccessful.
- Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit and began to employ nonviolent resistance.
- In 1915, he returned to India and led the Indian National Congress, which campaigned for a variety of social reforms.
- In 1947, India became independent, and the British Indian Empire was partitioned into India and Pakistan. Gandhi opposed the official celebration of independence and visited areas affected by religious violence.
- In 1948, he began a long fast to pressure the Indian government to pay Pakistan some cash assets. He completed the fast in January 1949.
- Gandhi died on January 30, 1948, at the age of 80.
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