Mahatma Gandhi's Life and Contributions

• Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat, India.
• He trained as a lawyer and started practicing in India in 1891, but was unsuccessful.
• He moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit and started using nonviolent resistance there.
• In 1915, he returned to India and led the Indian National Congress.
• He led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
• In the months following independence in 1947, he undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence.
• The last of these, begun in Delhi on January 12, 1948, also had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.
• On August 15, 1947, India became an independent country. Mahatma Gandhi was the main figure behind the country's independence.

Test your knowledge about the life and contributions of Mahatma Gandhi, a prominent leader in India's struggle for independence. Learn about his early life, his work in South Africa, and his role in the Indian National Congress.