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Gandhi was born
"Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian political leader and social reformer, was born in Porbandar 2 October 1869, the third son and youngest child by his fourth wife of Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi" p. 47 -
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Gandhi's life
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Gandhi studied in England
"At the age of nineteen he went to England to study law and entering at the Inner Temple was called in 1891" p. 47 -
Gandhi in South Africa
"Immediately after his call to the bar, Gandhi returned to India. ... In May 1893 he arrived in Natal. There he came in contact for the first time with racial antagonism" p. 48 -
Phoenix Farm near Durban
"... Phoenix Farm near Durban was the result. There, manual labour was compulsory, while smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol were absolutely forbidden" p. 49 -
New law
"The Transvaal legislative council passed a law, re-enacted by the Transvaal Parliament in 1907, requiring all Asiatics to take out registration cards" p. 49 -
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The Smuts-Gandhi compromise
"In 1910 Tolstoy Farm was established near Johannesburg for the benefit of those taking part in Satyagraha, a movement which finally ended with the Smuts-Gandhi compromise in 1914" p. 49 -
World War I
"In England at the outbreak of war in 1914, Gandhi raised an Indian ambulance unit" p. 50 -
No prominent part in politics
"For a time he took no prominent part in politics" p. 50 -
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The Prince of Wales
"The visit of the Prince of Wales in 1921, was boycotted, but a programme of mass civil disobedience was abandoned by Gandhi in 1922 when he saw thet it would end in violence" p. 50-51 -
World War II
"The outbreak of war in 1939 confronted Gandhi with an intolerable dilemma. He was by now a convinced pacifist, and, although his sympathies were with the democrats, he was not prepared to countenance the use of force even for the defence of India" p. 51 -
Gandhi died
"On 30 January 1948 one of these, Nathuram Godse, shot the Mahatma dead as he approached the dais in a garden in Delhi where he was accustomed each day to lead the people in prayer" p. 53