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He was born in Porbandar, India with his parents putlibai Gandhi karamchand Gandhiy, he is the youngest of four children.
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Gandhi married at thirteen with Kasturba of the same age, who his father had conceived him and also continued studying in high school.
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It was in this year that he decided to travel to study law, and his first child was also born.
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He accepted a one-year employment contract with an Indian company that operated in his native South Africa, he was interested in the situation of 150,000 compatriots who resided there fighting against laws that discriminate against Indians.
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Gandhi openly belonged to the front of the Indian nationalist movement, he restored novel methods of social struggle such as the hunger strike and rejected the armed struggle, he carried out a preaching of ahmsa (non-violence) to resist British rule.
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Gandhi founded this movement to protest finding the British, since in that way they would obtain their independence peacefully.
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Gandhi continued to protest with his people in a pacifist way, he did not participate in the Second World War.
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His wife died in 1944 while he was on a twenty-one-day fast.
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Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by a religious fanatic contrary to his ideology.
