Ghandi

Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandor, Kathiawar India. He was born into a business caste called vanishya, His mother was the fourth of three wives, the past three wives died by child birth. He was married to Kastuba Gandhi, which was arranged by his parents. Gandhi later on went to study law at the Inner Temple in London, England, he returned to Bombay in the mid – 1891, he set up a law practice there, but hardly had any success. He got offered a position in a law firm, he accepted it, and then the law firm sent him to South Africa.

In South Africa Gandhi experienced a lot of discrimination as an Indian immigrant in South Africa. Gandhi was on a train to Pretoria and got put in a Rosa Parks situation, Gandhi was in first class and a European passenger wanted his seat and Gandhi wouldn’t give up his seat and then he got beaten up by a white stage coach. This was the turning point in Gandhi’s story and he started to developed satyagraha or what we know it as passive resistance.

In 1906 when the Transvaal government passed an ordinance concerning the registration of its Indian population, Gandhi led a campaign civil disobedience that lasted eight whole years. During its final phrase in 1913, thousands of Indian were imprisoned, flogged and even shot. Finally, after being under pressure British and Indian government excepted the compromise made by Gandhi and general Smuts.

In July 1941 Gandhi left South Africa and returned to India. He supported the British World War one war effort but remain cautious about colonial measures he thought were not right. In 1919, Gandhi organized a satyagraha or passive resistance campaign to counter Parliament’s passage of Rowlett Acts. Back up a little after violence broke out, such as...

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...gress leadership, bringing Anglo-Indian (concerning british and Indians) relation to a all time low.

When the Labor party took over Britian in 1947, negotationta ( a dissucion armed on reaching a agreement ) over Indian home rule began between Britian, Muslim league, and Conress Party ( Muslim Leaugue is now leanby Jinnah ). Later on that year Britian gave India its independence, butspit the country in two, Indian and Pakistan. Gandhi disagreed with this decision but agreed hoping Hindus and Muslims groups don’t fight and live peacefully together, and did a hunger strike yet again until riots in Calcutta ceased.

In January 1948, he went on another fast, this time to bring peace to the city of Delhi. On January 30, 12 days after the fast or the hunger strike ended, Gandhi was on his way to a evening praying session in Delhi and got shot to death by Nathurum Godse.