Mahatma Gandhi's Life and Legacy

• Mahatma Gandhi was born in October 1869 in Gujarat, India.
• He trained in law at the Inner Temple in London and was called to the bar in 1891.
• Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893 and began to work as a lawyer, but was unsuccessful.
• In 1915, he returned to India and began to lead campaigns for civil rights and freedom.
• Gandhi 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.
• Gandhi adopted the short dhoti woven with hand-spun yarn as a mark of identification with India's rural poor.
• In the months following independence, he undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence.
• Gandhi died in January 1948, just a few months after the first of these strikes ended.

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