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- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist.
- He employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
- Gandhi inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
- He was born in Gujarat, India in 1869 and trained in law in London.
- Gandhi lived in South Africa for 21 years, where he first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.
- Gandhi returned to India in 1915 and assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921.
- Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, and ending untouchability.
- He challenged the British-imposed salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930 and called for the British to quit India in 1942.
- Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged by Muslim nationalism in the early 1940s.
- Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence and the last of these, begun in Delhi on 12 January 1948, had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.
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