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Mahatma Gandhi was born in Porbandar, Kathiwar, India.
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Married with only 13 years for reasons economic and convenience
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Gandhi studied law to become a lawyer, when he finishes his studies he goes to practice in South Africa.
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He accepted a one year contract in a company in india
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with this he was able to unite the Indian community in South Africa into a homogeneous political force.
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He returned to India for a brief period to take his wife and daughter to South Africa.
A group of white men attacked him and tried to lynch him. -
the Transvaal government enacted a law requiring all Indians to register.
Gandhi insisted that the Indians openly but without violence defy the enacted law, suffering the punishment that the government wanted to impose. Gandhi was imprisoned along with the Indians -
He founded the satyagraha Ashram and started getting involved in the social and political life of the country.