Adegbite sijuwade biography of mahatma gandhi

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Gandhi was appalled by the discrimination he experienced as an Indian immigrant in South Africa. Gandhiji was not satisfied with his studies at Samaldas College and so he became excited by the London proposal and managed to convince his mother and wife that he will not touch non-veg, wine, or women.

Off to London

In the year 1888, Mahatma Gandhi left for London to study law.

Gandhiji fasted in support of workers. His birthday is celebrated every year as Gandhi Jayanti. Unfortunately, political developments had moved favouring the partition of the country resulting in communal riots on a frightful scale.

At that time Gandhiji was studying at Samaldas College in Bhavnagar. 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. He realized that people had to be trained for non violent agitation. India was granted independence in 1947, and partitioned into India and Pakistan.

Same year in 1918, Gandhiji led a Satyagraha for the peasants of Kheda in Gujarat.

In 1919, he called for Civil Disobedience against Rowlatt Bill. Because of his wedding, at least about one year, his studies were disturbed and later he joined and completed his schooling. In 1915 when Gandhiji returned from South Africa he had established his ashram at Kochrab near Ahmedabad.

On August 29, 1931 Gandhiji sailed to London to attend Round Table Conference to have a discussion with the British. His father’s name was Karamchand Gandhi and his mother’s name was Putlibai. He was popularly known as Bapu (Father).

Mahatma Gandhi: Early Life and Family Background

He was born on 2 October, 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat.

The greatest of these is his Satyagraha.