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Nacimiento
He was born in the Indian city of Porbandar Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Trained in Great Britain as a lawyer, he began his political activity in South Africa, where he fought for the recognition of the rights of the Indian minority. Back home in 1915, he deployed his methods of civil disobedience and non-violence as a way to fight for independence from the British Empire. -
Matrimonio infantil
Following the Hindu tradition, with a wife chosen by his parents he married at just 13 years old, without any experience in life or in love, the marriage turned into a series of unfortunate events. -
infancia
Gandhi was a mediocre student in his youth at Porbandar and later at Rajkot, barely managing to pass the entrance examination at Bombay University in 1887, enrolling at the Samaldas School in Bhavnagar. He was not there long and took the opportunity to study in England, a country he considered "the cradle of philosophers and poets, the center of civilization. -
Viaje a inglaterra
Indeed, in the English capital he began to frequent the Theosophists, who initiated him by reading the first Indian classic, the Bhagavad Gita, which he would come to consider the book par excellence for the knowledge of the truth. There, too, he came into contact with the teachings of Jesus Christ, and for a time he was so drawn to Christian ethics that he hesitated between it and Hinduism. -
Robo
One day, to pay off a debt that his brother had entered into, he stole a gold jewel. Stealing, as we all know, is a serious sin. He knew that he had committed a serious crime. He resolved then, never to steal again in his life. He wrote a confession for his crime and gave it to his sick father. -
inspirador
he openly belonged to the front of the Indian nationalist movement. He established new methods of social struggle such as the hunger strike, and in his programs he rejected armed struggle and preached ahimsa (non-violence) as a means of resisting British rule. He widely defended and promoted total fidelity to the dictates of conscience, even going as far as civil disobedience if necessary. -
La marcha de la sal
Gandhi targeted the salt monopoly, which particularly affected the poor, and left Sabartami on March 12 with seventy-nine volunteers for Dandi, a coastal town 385 kilometers away. The small movement spread like the waves of a pond until it reached the whole of India: the peasants planted green branches the roads where this small and half-naked man would pass, with a bamboo staff, on the way to the sea and in front of a huge army peaceful. -
Religion
Gandhi had Hinduism as a religion and was nurtured, he himself says so from his sources. But alongside them there is another religious vein and this fact is something that deserves to be known. The religious and moral formation of the Mahatma owes a debt of gratitude to Christianity. -
Muerte
While on his way to a prayer meeting at Birla House in Delhi, Godse managed to get close enough to him in the crowd to be able to shoot him three times at point-blank range.
