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Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born in Gujarat in India on October 2, 1869. He was raised in a very conservative family. He was educated in law at University College, London. In 1891, after having been admitted to the British bar, Gandhi returned to India and attempted to establish a law practice in Bombay, without much success. Two years later an Indian firm with interests in South Africa retained him as legal adviser in its office in Durban. Arriving in Durban, Gandhi found himself treated as a member of an inferior race. He was appalled at the widespread denial of civil liberties and political rights to Indian immigrants to South Africa. He threw himself into the struggle for elementary rights for Indians. Gandhi stayed in South Africa for 20 years. When he moved back to India he became a leader. He launched his movement of non-violence resistance to [|Great Britain]. A demonstration against the Rowlatt Act resulted in a massacre of Indians by British soldiers. They protested by blocking streets and boycotting its goods. They arrested Gandhi but then they were forced to release him. All this resistance resulted in extreme poverty for Great Britain. Gandhi became an international symbol of freedom to India. He refused any possessions and wore a loincloth as his clothes. He also ate the vegetables and food he could farm himself. Then Gandhi became the leader of the Indian national congress which lead to Gandhi being imprisoned again in 1922. After his release in 1924 he told Indians to refuse to pay taxes and not buy any salt. Then in 1947 after being imprisoned many times India became in dependent. He was assassinated in January 30, 1948 by a Hindu fanatic. Gandhi relates to the book because they were talking about leaders in revolutions and they talked about Gandhi media type="youtube" key="58AOOFcCfa0&hl=en" height="355" width="425"

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