Born October 2, 1869
Porbandar, Kathiawar, India
Died January 30, 1948
New Delhi, India
Independence activist, spiritual leader, and nonviolence proponent
Mohandas K. Gandhi was a lawyer by training who found that his true calling was seeking justice in the streets and in the countryside rather than in the courtroom. Gandhi’s first battle for equality was fought in South Africa, where he was employed by a law firm. Gandhi refused to accept the indignities of racial discrimination against Indians in South Africa and led a movement to repeal racist laws.
Upon his return to India, Gandhi received the nickname Mahatma, meaning “Great Soul.” Gandhi embraced the cause of the poorest of all Indians—the social caste called Untouchables—choosing to don their style of clothing and live among them. Gandhi organized civil disobedience campaigns, which he called “nonviolent noncooperation,” to achieve independence from Great Britain. He also advocated unity between Hindus and Muslims. In 1948, at the age of seventy-eight, the man famous for demonstrating the power of nonviolence was himself killed by an assassin’s bullets.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in the ocean-side city of Porbandar (in the Kathiawar peninsula of western India).
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