Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Kathiawar, India. He studied law in London, England, but in 1893 went to South Africa, where he spent 20 years opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians. As a pioneer of Satyagraha, or resistance through mass non-violent civil disobedience, he became one of the major political and spiritual leaders of his time. Satyagraha remains one of the most potent philosophies in freedom struggles throughout the world today. Gandhi returns from S. Africa in 1914,where he champions the Home Rule movement. He uses, Satyagraha, civil disobedience, non-violence to defy Imperialist British rule. Gandhi shamed the British Government. He revealed to the world that the Indian people were not barbarians or savages. The British, with their beatings and jailing were seen as the uncivilized ones.Gandhi led the Salt March and the March on the salt Works Factory as acts of Civil Disobedience and goes on Hunger strikes. India gains its independence (1947) Also, he tried to stop the Hindu-Muslim conflict in Bengal, a policy which led to his assassination in Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic In 1947 . The British will leave India after approximately 347 years of Imperialist Rule.
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