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Birth of Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, Rajkot in Gujarat. His parents were Kaba Gandhi and Putli Bai. -
Return to india
Gandhi returned to India in 1915. At this time he had already changed his habits and lifestyle adopting the more traditional ones of India. At first he tried to launch a new newspaper and practice law, but was dissuaded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale, who persuaded him to pursue work of greater national importance. -
front of the Indian nationalist movement
From 1919 he openly belonged to the front of the Indian nationalist movement. He established new methods of social struggle such as the hunger strike and in his programs he rejected the armed struggle and preached ahimsa (non-violence) as a means to resist British rule. -
March of salt
From March 12 to April 6, 1930, he starred in an important non-violent protest, known as the salt march (salt satiagraha), which would serve as inspiration for movements such as that of the American Martin Luther King. -
London Conference
In 1931 he participated in the London Conference, where he claimed the independence of India. He leaned in favor of the right of the Congress party and had conflicts with his disciple Nehru, who represented the left. -
Nationalist negotiation
In 1942 London sent Richard Stafford Cripps as an intermediary to negotiate with the Nationalists, but when a satisfactory solution was not found, they radicalized their positions. -
Death of his wife and deprivation of his liberty
Gandhi and his wife Kasturba were deprived of their liberty and placed under house arrest in the Palace of the Aga Khan, where she died in 1944, while he was on a twenty-one day fast. -
Partition of India (1945-1947)
Gandhi recommended that Congress reject the proposals of the Cabinet Mission Plan created by the British in 1946. He distrusted the idea of sharing power with the Muslim League and the divisions and decentralization proposed by the British. Between 1945 and 1947, more than 5,000 people died in clashes between Hindus and Muslims. The League was popular in regions where there was a Muslim majority, such as Punjab, Bengal, Sindh, NWFP, and Baluchistan. -
Last years
Nirmal Kumar Bose, another close assistant of Gandhi, left him in April 1947, after Gandhi's tour of Noakhali, where some altercation between Gandhi and Sushila Nayar had taken place in his bedroom at midnight, in which Gandhi told him he slapped his palm on the forehead -
Death
He disapproved of the religious conflicts that followed the independence of India, defending Muslims in Indian territory, being assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a fanatic Hindu integrationist, on January 30, 1948 at the age of 78. His ashes were thrown into the Ganges River.
