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Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869.
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Gandhi was married at the age of 13. This was anarged marriage.
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In 1891 Gandhi returned to India. He was studying law at a school called University College in London.
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Unsuccesful in Bombay, He went to South Africa in 1893. At Natal he was the first so-called "colored" lawyer admitted to supreme court.
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In 1894 he founded the Natal Indiana Congress to agitate for India rights. Yet He remaind loyal to the British Empire.
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In 1899, during the Boer War, He raised an ambulance corps and served the South African government. In 1906 he gave aid against the Zulu revolt.
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Later in 1906, however, Gandhi began his peaceful revolution. He declared he would go to jail or even die before obeying an anti-Asian Law. Thousands of Indianas joined him in this civil disobedience campaign.
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Before returning home he was imprisoned twice. Yet in World War I he began organized an ambulance corps for the British.
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In 1919, he became a leader in the newly formed Indian National Congress polition party. This is a new party that was formed because of how they were treating Indians.
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In 1920 he launched a noncooperation campaing against Britian. Urging Indians to spin their own cotton and to boycott British goods, courts, and governent.
