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Born in Porbandar, India
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the foremost leader of the Indian Independence Movement against the British Raj, practicing non-violent civil disobedience, as well as an Indian Hindu pacifist, politician, thinker and lawyer. He received from Rabindranath Tagore the honorary name of Mahatma -
Marries Kastubai Nakanj
At thirteen, Gandhi was forced to marry Kasturba, only one year older. Arranged marriage was a tradition at the time, but unlike other couples, teens fell in love -
He moves to South Africa, where he works on behalf of the Indians
A job that he accepted in situ motivated by the resistance struggle and non-violent civil disobedience that his compatriots were carrying out in the face of pressure and discrimination from the country towards Hindus -
First campaign of civil disobedience. He is sentenced to prison.
By 1922, Gandhi was arrested and accused of sedition for some riots that had arisen. He was released two years later and retired from public life until 1928, the year in which he announced a new campaign of resistance against the British authorities, which was intensified with the proposal not to pay taxes, especially the one on salt, whose monopoly was in the hands of the English government -
March of salt
It was a demonstration led by Mahatma Gandhi and carried out between March 12 and April 6, 1930. -
Independence of India. Separation from Pakistan.
The partition of India was the partition of the British Indian Empire which resulted in the creation of the sovereign States of the Dominion of Pakistan (later divided into Pakistan and Bangladesh) and the Union of India (later Republic of India) on August 15, 1947. -
Killed by a Hindu fanatic in New Delhi.
He fought against the religious conflicts that followed the independence of India and defended the Muslims in Hindu territory, which is why at the age of 78, on January 30, 1948, he was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, an Indian fundamentalist fanatic.
