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Gandhiji's first satyagraha in India was in Champaran, in Bihar. Gandhiji was married at the age of thirteen to Kasturbai. When he refused to do so, a constable pushed him out and his luggage was taken away by the railway authorities. In the general elections held in Britain in 1945, Labour Party came to power, and Atlee
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After an year of wandering, Gandhiji settled down on the bank of the river Sabarmati, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, where he founded an ashram
called Satyagraha Ashram. Later, Bhagavad Gita set an impression and influenced his life.

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Mahatma Gandhi: In South Africa

In May 1893 he went to South Africa to work as a lawyer.

At this time Gandhiji received an offer from Dada Abdulla & Co. to proceed to South Africa on their behalf to instruct their counsel in a lawsuit.

sikander kher biography of mahatma gandhi

After the death of Gandhiji's father in 1885, a family suggested that if Gandhiji hoped to take his father's place in the state service he had better become a barrister which he could do in England in three years. Meanwhile, some of his party colleagues–particularly Mohammed Ali Jinnah, a leading voice for India’s Muslim minority–grew frustrated with Gandhi’s methods, and what they saw as a lack of concrete gains.

Disorders broke out
immediately all over India and many violent demonstrations took place. Gandhiji too had a severe attack of Malaria. Some of his literary works are as follows:

  • Hind Swaraj, published in Gujarati in 1909. 
  • He edited several newspapers which included Harijan in Gujarati, in Hindi and the English language; Indian Opinion, Young India, in English, and Navajivan, a Gujarati monthly. 
  • Gandhi also wrote his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth.
  • His other autobiographies included: Satyagraha in South Africa, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule.

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Mahatma Gandhi: Awards

  • In 1930, Gandhi was named the Man of the Year by Time Magazine.
  • In 2011, Time magazine named Gandhi as one of the top 25 political icons of all time.
  • He did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize despite being nominated five times between 1937 and 1948.
  • The Government of India institutionalized the annual Gandhi Peace Prize to distinguished social workers, world leaders, and citizens.

    Born in a Bania family in Kathiawar, Gujarat, his real name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (M.K. Communal riots between Hindus and Muslims broke out in the country in the aftermath of partition. He decided to set up legal practice in Bombay but couldn't establish himself. a white passenger who boarded the train objected to the presence of a "coloured" man in the compartment and Gandhji was ordered by a railway official to shift to a third class.

    Many Indians renounced
    their titles and honours, lawyers gave up their practice, and students left colleges and schools. In the course of his struggle in South Africa, Gandhiji, developed the concepts of Ahimsa (non-violence) and Satyagraha (holding fast to truth or firmness in a righteous cause).

               Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, a small town on the western coast of India, which was then one of the many tiny
    states in Kathiawar.

    Gandhiji's first satyagraha in India was in Champaran, in Bihar.   In 1921, Gandhji gave the call for Non-cooperation movement against the ills of British rule. The title Mahatma came to be associated with his name much later.