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Gandhi was born 1869 in Porbandar, India. His mon and dad were Putlibai Gandhi, and Karamchand Gandhi
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Gandhi went to school at UCL Faculty Of Laws from 1888-1891
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Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893 to practice law under a one year contract. Settling in Natal, he was subjected to racism and South African laws that restricted the rights of Indian laborers
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In 1906, the Transvaal government sought to further restrict the rights of Indians, and Gandhi organized his first campaign of satyagraha, or mass civil disobedience. After seven years of protest, he negotiated a compromise agreement with the South African
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On March 10, 1922, Gandhi was arrested on charges of sedition by British officials in Bombay. He was sentenced to six years in prison for his involvement in protesting the British colonial government in India.
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On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India. Gandhi and his supporters were to defy British policy by making salt from seawater.
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Before going on one, he would have lemon juice and honey with warm water. He would keep drinking water, occasionally with salt or lemon juice, through the day, no matter how nauseous or weak he felt. To minimise the loss of energy, he would sleep more than usual.
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On September 16, 1932, in his cell at Yerwada Jail in Pune, Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest of the British government’s decision to separate India’s electoral system by caste.
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Hindu extremist angry at Gandhi, a fellow Hindu, for advocating unity between India's Hindus and Muslims. Just 10 days before his assassination, a Hindu refugee from Pakistan named Madanlal Pahwa set off a bomb at one of Gandhi's prayer meetings.
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His death came less than a year after India gained its independence. Mohandas Gandhi was on his way to his daily prayer meeting in New Delhi when an assassin shot him on January 30, 1948.
