- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), called Mahatma Gandhi was an East Indian political leader.
- Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India.
- He studied law in London and upon his return to India practiced at Bombay.
- Gandhi went to South Africa as a lawyer in 1893. There he inaugurated his policy of passive resistance in protest against the conditions imposed upon Indians.
- Mahatma Gandhi was a devoted vegetarian, and undertook long fasts as means of both self-purification and political mobilization.
- After World War I, during which he organized an Indian ambulance corps, he transferred to India his firm, patient policy of nonviolence in order to secure self-govermnent and to raise the standard of living.
- Recognized as a great religious leader of the Hindus, Gandhi wielded tremendous personal and political influence.
- On January 30 of 1948 Gandhi was fatally shot by a Hindu fanatic as he walked to evening prayer at Birla House in New Delhi, India.
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