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- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, nationalist, and political ethicist.
- He employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
- Gandhi was born in coastal Gujarat, India in 1869.
- He moved to South Africa in 1893 and lived there for 21 years.
- Gandhi returned to India in 1915 and soon began organizing protests for civil rights and self-rule.
- He led campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, and ending discrimination.
- Gandhi adopted a simple lifestyle and undertook long fasts as a means of introspection and protest.
- He challenged the British-imposed salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930 and called for the British to quit India in 1942.
- India gained independence in 1947, but was partitioned into two dominions, India and Pakistan.
- Gandhi attempted to alleviate religious violence following the partition and undertook several hunger strikes before his death in 1948.
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