Nationaly: Indian
Date of birth: October 2nd 1869
Date of death: Juanary 30th 1948

Home town: Porbandar
First success: fighting
against laws that
discriminated against Hindus
in South Africa through
passive resistance and
Civil disobedience.
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Most famous book: During his
years in South Africa, Gandhi
was inspired by the Bhagavad
Gita and in the books of Tolstoy,
particularly in the Kingdom of
God is in you. In the 1880's
Tolstoy had become deeply to
the cause of Christian anarchism.
Gandhi led another book by
this author called Letter to Indian
writing in 1908, in response
to Indian nationalists who
supported violence.

Career and social politics: Gandhi is loyal
and friendly towards the British, during the
rebellion of the Zulu. This does not prevent it
from launching, in September this year, his
first campaign of nonviolent resistance in defense
of the Indians of South Africa. By harsh struggles,
always conducted with the method of non-violent
resistance, Gandhi gets equal rights for Indian
immigrants.
Family: He was the son of Karamchand Gandhi,
a prime minister and his family local era of caste
vaisya (trader). Her mother, Putlibai, the fourth
wife of his father. For the thirteen years married,
arranged by her parents, with Makharji Kasturba,
who was the same age and with which he had
four children.

Childhood: In the seven years he moved with his father at Rajkot. Here is what sends an elementary school. Later becomes a school suburbana. A the twelve years is part of the college. For the thirteen years he married and disembarks in Southampton. Coming to London, there remains a period of three years, needed to obtain clearance for the legal profession.

Personal life:He returned to India in 1915,
change their habits and lifestyle. the
principle of launching a new newspaper
and practicing lawyers, but was
dissuaded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale,
who persuaded him to devote himself
to work for greater national importance.
Kasturba Gandhi and his wife traveled
throughout India. Maintain a voluminous
correspondence with different characters
in this country and continued
experimenting with his diet and
deepening their knowledge of religion and
philosophy, but above all, primary attention
paid to politics.

Key event: other humiliations suffered by
not giving accommodation in several hotels
because of their race. This experience gave him
much more in touch with the problems suffered by
people of color daily in South Africa. And in this
country, having suffered racism, prejudice and
injustice began to question the social situation of
their fellow and theirs in the same society. When
his contract expired, was prepared to return to India.
At the farewell party in his honor in Durban, look at a
newspaper reported that a law was being developed in
the Legislative Assembly of Natal, which would deny
the vote to Indians. Postpuso his return to India and was
devoted to the task of preparing several petitions to both
the assembly of Natal and the British government trying to
prevent such a law was passed. While not achieved its
objective, since the law was enacted, succeeded, however,
draw attention to the problems of racial discrimination against
Indians in South Africa. in January 1897, a group of white
men attacked it and tried to lynched

Awards: Gandhi was never awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize, but was nominated five times
between 1937 and 1948. Decades later, however,
the Committee which administers the Nobel laureate
said the unfairness of this omission, which he
attributed to nationalist sentiment divided denied
that such a prize to Gandhi.
The Government of India gives an award to
which called the Peace Prize to Mahatma Gandhi.
Nelson Mandela, the South African leader, is among
those who received the prize.
death: On January 30, 1948, when Gandhi
was heading to a meeting to pray, was assassinated in
Birla Bhavan (Birla House) in New Delhi, at 78 years of
age by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu radical groups apparently
linked to ultra-rightist India, as was the Hahasabha Hindu
party, who accused him of weakening the new government
in his insistence that he was paid the money promised to
Pakistan. Gods and his co-conspirator Narayan Apte were
tried and sentenced to death. His execution took place on
November 15, 1949.
Celebration: On January 30 they celebrate the Day
School of Nonviolence and Peace (DENIP) in memory of this
man. In countries with school calendars themselves in the
southern hemisphere this day is commemorated on March 30.