Mahatma gandhi biography in english
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Early Life
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat. His father was the dewan (chief minister) of Porbandar; his deeply religious mother was a devoted practitioner of Vaishnavism (worship of the Hindu god Vishnu), influenced by Jainism, an ascetic religion governed by tenets of self-discipline and nonviolence. At the age of 19, Mohandas left home to study law in London at the Inner Temple, one of the city’s four law colleges. Upon returning to India in mid-1891, he set up a law practice in Bombay, but met with little success. He soon accepted a position with an Indian firm that sent him to its office in South Africa. Along with his wife, Kasturbai, and their children, Gandhi remained in South Africa for nearly 20 years.
Did you know? In the famous Salt March of April-May 1930, thousands of Indians followed Gandhi from Ahmadabad to the Arabian Sea. The march resulted in the arrest of nearly 60,000 people, including Gandhi himself.
Gandhi was appalled by the discrimination he experienced as an Indian imm
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The Order of the Companions of O.R. Tambo in Gold
Mahatma Ghandi (1869 - 1948) Awarded for:
Exceptional contribution to the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa and for a just world.
Profile of Mahatma Ghandi
Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869, at Porbandar, a small town on the western coast of India, which was then one of the many tiny states in Kathiawar. ‘But though Gandhi lived, suffered and died in India for Indians, it is not in relation to India’s destiny alone that his life has significance’, says one scribe about the Mahatma.
Any narration of the life of the Mahatma drips the blood ties that knot the ‘great soul in beggar’s garb’ to the history and ultimate liberation of the South African peoples.
He refined his Satyagraha in South Africa after he arrived in KwaZulu-Natal as a mere 24 year-old. Mahatma Gandhi lived for twenty-one years in South Africa. He shaped the destinies of generations to come, both in South Africa and in India.
Gandhi’s resilient but peaceful opposition to all forms of discrimination is known and celebrated the wor
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Champions of Human Rights
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 –1948)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is widely recognized as one of the twentieth century’s greatest political and spiritual leaders. Honored in India as the father of the nation, he pioneered and practiced the principle of Satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass nonviolent civil disobedience.
While leading nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand women’s rights, build religious and ethnic harmony and eliminate the injustices of the caste system, Gandhi supremely applied the principles of nonviolent civil disobedience, playing a key role in freeing India from foreign domination. He was often imprisoned for his actions, sometimes for years, but he accomplished his aim in 1947, when India gained its independence from Britain.
Due to his stature, he is now referred to as Mahatma, meaning “great soul.” World civil rights leaders—from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Nelson Mandela—have credited Gandhi as a source of inspiration in their struggles to achieve equal rights for their people.
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