Mahatma Gandhi's Life and Achievements

• Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in the town of Porbandar, in the Gujarat region of western India.
• He was educated at the Inner Temple in London, and became a barrister in 1892.
• Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893 to work as an lawyer for an Indian merchant, but found little success.
• In 1915, Gandhi returned to India and began to lead the Indian National Congress, a political organization dedicated to achieving independence from British rule.
• Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule for India.
• Gandhi adopted the simple dress and lifestyle of the Indian peasantry as a mark of identification with the Indian people.
• In the years following independence, Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence.
• Gandhi died on January 30, 1948, after a long and successful career as an advocate for Indian independence and civil rights.

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