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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, a coastal city in Kathiawad (now part of the state of Gujarat) on October 2, 1869. He was the youngest son of his parents, Karamchand and Putlibai
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At thirteen, Gandhi married a little girl his own age named Kasturbai Makanji, the daughter of an important cloth merchant who lived a few meters from his home.
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Mahatma He managed to pass the university entrance exam with great effort. Soon after, he moved to England to study law in London in 1888.
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He went to South Africa and founded the newspaper called "The Indian Opinion" and created the Natal Indian Congress
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Arriving in South Africa on his way to Pretoria, he was forcibly removed from the train at Pietermaritzburg station because he refused to upgrade from first class to third class, which was intended for blacks. Later, while riding a stagecoach, he was struck by the driver because a white-skinned passenger refused to access his seat.
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He returned to India and joined the Indian national movement.
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Gandhi was arrested in March and sentenced to serve 6 years in prison for a campaign of civil disobedience.
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April 6, 1930, he starred in an important non-violent protest, known as the salt march (salt satiagraha), which would inspire movements such as that of the American Martin Luther King.
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In the world war, Ghandi, had given a contribution but in the policy of indifference, and not of violence against the British, but the leaders did not agree, so they decided to attack in masses. Gandhi decided that India could not be in a world war, but in a fight for freedom.
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On January 30, Gandhi was assassinated at the age of 78 by a fanatic from New Delhi, India.
