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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, today that is the state Gujarat in India. His mother was a very religious woman named Putibai Gandhi and his father was the chief minister of Porbandar.
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When Ghandi was 19 years old he went and studied law at a University college in London. This was where he learned about the principals of nonviolence.
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After just 9 months of college Ghandi graduates and comes home and then heads out to South Africa. This was where he became the first colored lawer.
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Before the Boer war Gandhi was loyal to the Brittish Empire but served the South Africa government by raising an ambulance corps to fight the Brittish.
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Gandhi decided that peace was the best solution to this war. He claimed he would go to jail before law.obeying an anti-Asian
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Gandhi had been working hard for "home rule" of India so when the Indian Nation Congress was formed he was an obvious choice as a leader.
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Gandhi gets people to make there own cotton and boycott Brittish goods. He was imprisoned for 2 years because of this.
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He retired as head of the party but remained the actual leader. He became convinced that India would need to defeat the Brittish to be free.
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The Brittish surrendered leaving the country to be divided into India and Pakistan. This caused lots of hIndu muslim riots.
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Gandhi was assinated by a Hindu who did not like what he had done to Africa. He was on his way to prayer in Deihi when he was killed.
