MAHATMA GANDHI

LIFE SKETCH
FULL NAME:MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI
BORN: 2nd October 1869
DIED: 30th January 1948
BIRTHPLACE: Porbandar, Gujarat, India
FATHERS NAME: KARAMCHAND UTTAMCHAND GANDHI,
served as the diwan (chief minister) of Porbandar state.
MOTHERS NAME: PUTLIBAI was a traditional Indian woman,
devoted to her home and family, deeply religious and austere
SCHOOLING : Primary in Porbandar and later the Albert High School,
Rajkot
MARRIAGE : With KASTURBA at the age of thirteen

GANDHIS WORK

1906: Gandhiji organized a protest against unfair Asiatic

Regulation Bill
1908: He mobilised Indian community in South Africa against
the discriminatory law requiring Asians to apply for the
registration by burning 2000 official certificates of domicile at
a public meeting at Johannesburg and courting jail.
1913: To protest against the imposition of 3 Pound tax and
passing immigration Bill adversely affecting the status of
married women, he inspired Kasturbai and Indian women to
join the struggle.
1915: He returned from South Africa he had established his
ashram at Kochrab near Ahmedabad.
1917: First Satyagraha in India was at Champaran, Bihar for the
rights of peasants on indigo plantations.

GANDHIS WORK

1918: He led a Satyagraha for the peasants of Kheda in

Gujarat.
1919: He called for Civil Disobedience against Rowlatt Bill. This
non-cooperation movement was the first nationwide
movement
on national scale.
1921: He took to wearing loin cloth to identify himself with poor
masses and to propagate khadi, hand spun cloth. He
also
started Swadeshi movement, advocating the use of commodities
made in the country.
1930: He set out with 78 volunteers on historic Salt March from
Sabarmati Ashram; Ahmedabad to Dandi, a village on the sea
coast.This was an important non violent movement of Indian
freedom struggle.
1948: Gandhiji, on his way to the prayer meeting at Birla House,
New Delhi, fell to the bullets fired by Nathuram Vinayak Godse.