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Mahatma Gandhi
We would like to offer the most important events in the life of the political ethicist Mahatma Gandhi -
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Birth
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
2 October 1869 -
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Marriage
Gandhi and Kasturbai are married. -
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Studies
Gandhi leaves for England to study law. -
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Events
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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Events
·Indian independence becomes official, as does the partition into two countries, India and Pakistan.