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We would like to offer the most important events in the life of the political ethicist Mahatma Gandhi
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
2 October 1869 -
Gandhi and Kasturbai are married.
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Gandhi leaves for England to study law.
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The Boer Republic Transvaal, now under the control of the British, attempts to register all Indians as members; Gandhi and others refuse to register. Their resistance efforts mark the first use of nonviolent non-cooperation by the Indian minority in South Africa, soon calledsatyagraha, or "soul-force."
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·Indian independence becomes official, as does the partition into two countries, India and Pakistan.