Dr be lekganyane biography of mahatma gandhi
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Realizing that he is going to be staying in South Africa, Gandhi returns to Bombay to get his wife and children so he can bring them to South Africa.
Having returned to India as a hero in 1915, Gandhi leads the movement to break away from Great Britain. He refrained from active participation in politics for the next several years, but in 1930 launched a new civil disobedience campaign against the colonial government’s tax on salt, which greatly affected Indian’s poorest citizens.
A Divided Movement
In 1931, after British authorities made some concessions, Gandhi again called off the resistance movement and agreed to represent the Congress Party at the Round Table Conference in London.
When a European magistrate in Durban asked him to take off his turban, he refused and left the courtroom. The trip becomes a major turning point for him as he devotes his life to the pursuit of equality and justice. Gandhi ends up staying in South Africa for 20 years.
Gandhi is arrested for the first time.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is born in Porbandar on the northwest coast of India.
Upon returning to India in mid-1891, he set up a law practice in Bombay, but met with little success. On a train voyage to Pretoria, he was thrown out of a first-class railway compartment and beaten up by a white stagecoach driver after refusing to give up his seat for a European passenger.
Forced to buy salt only from Britain, Gandhi protests the monopoly by leading the Salt March from Sabermanti to the Arabian Sea, 240 miles away.
Gandhi is refused entry into South Africa. Invested with all the authority of the Indian National Congress (INC or Congress Party), Gandhi turned the independence movement into a massive organization, leading boycotts of British manufacturers and institutions representing British influence in India, including legislatures and schools.
After sporadic violence broke out, Gandhi announced the end of the resistance movement, to the dismay of his followers.
Gandhi is approached by Nathuram Vinayuk Godse, a Hindu nationalist.
Gandhi begins studies at University College London.
Calling it the "noblest act of the British nation," Gandhi celebrates India's independence from England.
Gandhi goes to London to enter law school.
When he is arrested later that year, he reads "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau and is even more committed to peaceful resistance.