Mohandas K. Gandhi 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...

GANDHI, MOHANDAS (1869–1948), political leader, social reformer, and religious visionary of modern India. Although Gandhi initially achieved public notice as a leader of India's nationalist movement and as a champion of nonviolent...

Mohandas Gandhi, 1869–1948. Gandhi was an...

(1869–1948), Indian nationalist and promoter of nonviolent resistance. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi grew up in Porbandar, Gujarat, the son of a minister of a princely state. His father became a judge at a special court in Rajkot, Gujarat, settling...

Gandhi, Mahatma INDIAN RELIGIOUS LEADER 1869–1948 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the world-renowned leader of India's struggle for independence from Great Britain, is best remembered for his doctrine of peaceful resistance. Gandhi's...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi led the movement that freed India from colonial occupation by the British. His leadership was based not only on his political vision but also on his moral, economic, and personal philosophies. Gandhi's beliefs have...

(1869–1948) the ‘father’ of India, who contributed enormously to the demise of the colonial rule in India. Having studied law in London and practised it in South Africa, he turned, on his return to India in 1915, to political...

(born Oct. 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died Jan. 30, 1948, Delhi) Preeminent leader of Indian nationalism and prophet of nonviolence in the 20th century. Gandhi grew up in a home steeped in religion, and he took for granted religious tolerance and...