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Mahatma Gandhi. Great life of a great man. Early life. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October second in Porbandar , India. Marriage.
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Mahatma Gandhi Great life of a great man
Earlylife • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October second in Porbandar, India.
Marriage • In May 1883, the 13-year-old Mohandas was married to 14-year-old KasturbaiMakhanji in an arranged child marriage. When Gandhi was 15, the couple's first child was born, but survived only a few days. Gandhi's father, Karamchand Gandhi, had also died earlier that year.
Ideology • When he was 15 years old he joined in the nationalist Hindu movement, where he leaded the campaign for the independence of India from great Britain.
Military tactics • He created a new kind of confrontation known as passive resistance where people make pressure by doing nothing.
Life in jail • He spent seven years in total in jail for his activities in India and South Africa as he thought it was an honor to go to jail for a fair reason.
Objectives • His main mission was to erase the castes and religions that divided India. This gave him many problems with authorities.
Victoryand war • With his help, India got it’s independencein 1947 and divided in two nations; India and Pakistan because of the battles between indians and muslims.
The solution • On 1948, he started a fast to stop this confrontation, which stopped after five days.
Final days • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated twelve days after this event by an Hindu fanatic that opposed to his religious tolerance at New Delhi on 1948.
Extra Images Gandhi’sletterto Adolf Hitler beforeWorldWar II