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Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat, India
He was educated in law at the Inner Temple in London and called to the bar in 1891
Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit
He began to employ nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights in South Africa
In 1915, aged 45, Gandhi returned to India and soon set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination
Gandhi assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921
Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and, above all, achieving swaraj or self-rule
Gandhi adopted the short dhoti woven with hand-spun yarn as a mark of identification with Indias rural poor
Gandhi began to live in a self-sufficient residential community, to eat simple food, and undertake long fasts as a means of both introspection and political protest
In the months following, he undertook several hunger strikes to stop the religious violence
The last of these, begun in Delhi on January 12, 1948, had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan

Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat, India. He was educated in law at the Inner Temple in London and called to the bar in 1891. He moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit. He began to employ nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights in South Africa. In 1915, aged 45, Gandhi returned to India and soon set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Gandhi assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921. Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and, above all, achieving swaraj or self-rule. Gandhi adopted the short dhoti woven with hand-spun yarn as a mark of identification with Indias rural poor. Gandhi began to live in a self-sufficient residential community, to eat simple food, and undertake long fasts as a means of both introspection and political protest. In the months following, he undertook several hunger strikes to stop the religious violence. The last of these, begun in Delhi on January 12, 1948, had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.