Mohandas Gandhi: The Life And Life Of Gandhi's Life

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Mohandas Gandhi was born into a wealthy caste where he was fortunate enough to get a comprehensive education. gandhi was not the best student but he did not act up, his academic skills were average. His parents arranged his marriage at the young age of thirteen to Kasturba Makhanji also the age of thirteen. After his entry into Samaldas college at the University of Bombay his wife birthed his first of four sons in 1888. Gandhi did not like college and was unhappy there. His parents wished for him to take the BAR exam for law. In September of 1888 Gandhi started school at University College London at the age of eighteen.
Hinduism was very important to Gandhi so while in England he tried to adhere to its principles which include vegetarianism, sexual abstinence and alcoholic abstinence. In London he pursued the philosophical study of religions including Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity. After returning to India Gandhi found it hard to find a job, but in 1893 he accepted a year long contract with an Indian law firm. After Gandhi spent the next twenty one years in South …show more content…

The first attempt came on 25th June 1934, when he was in Pune delivering a speech, together with his wife, Kasturba. Travelling in a motorcade of two cars, they were in the second car, which was delayed by the appearance of a train at a railway level crossing, causing the two vehicles to separate. When the first vehicle arrived at the speech venue, a bomb was thrown at the car, which exploded and injured several people. No investigations were carried out at the time, and no arrests were made, although many attribute the attack to Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fundamentalist implacably opposed to Gandhi’s non-violent acceptance and tolerance of all religions, which he felt compromised the supremacy of the Hindu religion. Godse was the person responsible for the eventual assassination of Gandhi in January 1948, 14 years

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