Biography of Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as ‘Mahatma Gandhi’, was one of the
greatest freedom fighters that the world has ever seen. It is a great honor for our country's
people to be in the birthplace and workplace of Mahatma Gandhi. He was a self-sacrificing
hero who rose to the occasion of freeing the country from the grasp of the British. He began
several movements like the Quit India Movement as well as the Satyagraha movement.

Born in the quiet place of Gujarat, Mahatma Gandhi went on to become a freedom fighter and
fought fiercely to free India from British Rule. He believed in non-violence and considered
peace to be of great importance in the case of winning the struggle.

He started his life as a lawyer. He came to India to pursue the same and could not make a
good living out of the skill that he had acquired. He failed to practice law properly here and as
a result of that, shifted to South Africa. He started a family there. He was a vivid reflection of
the values his mother had taught him. Mahatma Gandhi continued his education in the field of
law in South Africa. He made a good impression on the people in London as a Lawyer. He was
called to decide at the tender age of 22. He did his first adjudication at the age of 22 in the
year 1891. He did well and was asked to stay back in London. What ultimately changed
Mahatma Gandhi was the discrimination he faced as a person of color in London. He also
started an ashram in South Africa. His years in South Africa also changed Gandhiji massively.
He has now imbibed the values of his mother entirely and decided to fight against the
problems of the world in a calm and non-violent manner. Mahatma Gandhi was the founder of
the Natal Indian Congress in the year 1894. He kept fighting against racial discrimination and
had already fought in several civil rights movements in South Africa. His journey as a civil rights
activist began at the age of 22. In these years, he vehemently educated himself in the field of
justice and civil rights. He was the first Indian to use a word like Swadeshi and Purna Swaraj
and strongly opposed casteism and differentiation based on ethnicity. He began his journey by
organizing the farmers and peasants into cooperation groups. They opposed taxation
excessively on crops by the rulers of the country and tried his best to abolish the cruel practice
of untouchability. Mahatma Gandhi also wanted to make India independent from the British
Government which he struggled with for a long time but in the end, he achieved his goal of
making India an independent country.

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