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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi also called Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonialist, freedom fighter, political leader\u00a0who led the movement to free India from British rule by using non-violence as a weapon. He set an example for global leaders in achieving peace with no war and violence. He got honorific Mah\u0101tm\u0101 in 1914 which is being used globally later on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gandhiji was Born and raised to a Hindu family in Porbandar, Gujarat. He got trained in the law (barrister) at the inner Temple, London, and was chosen to the bar at age of 22 in June 1891. After two unsuccessful years in India, he moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit. He went on to live in South Africa for 21 years. It was here that Gandhi raised a family and first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights. In 1915, at the age of 45, he returned to India and soon became successful in uniting peasants, farmers, and urban Labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After taking over as the Indian National Congress’s leader in 1921, Gandhiji oversaw national campaigns to abolish untouchability, promote women’s rights, reduce poverty, foster interethnic and religious harmony, and, most importantly, achieve swaraj, or self-rule. Gandhi adopted the hand-spun yarn short dhoti as a symbol of his identification with India’s rural poor. He started to fast for extended periods of time, eat simple food, and live in an independent residential community as a way to express his political disapproval and engage in introspection. Bringing anti-colonial nationalism to the common Indians, Gandhi led them in the 400-kilometer Dandi Salt March in 1930 to protest the British government’s salt tax, and in 1942, he demanded that the British leave India. He spent many years and numerous imprisonments in South Africa and India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early in the 1940s, Muslim nationalism threatened Gandhi’s vision of an independent India founded on religious pluralism by calling for a separate homeland for Muslims inside British India. Following Britain’s declaration of independence in August 1947, the British Indian Empire was split into two dominions: India, which is predominantly Hindu, and Pakistan, which is predominantly Muslim. Religious violence broke out as a large number of displaced Muslims, Sikhs, and Hindus traveled to their new homes, particularly in Bengal and Punjab. Gandhi tried to ease suffering by visiting the impacted areas and skipped the official independence celebrations. He went on multiple hunger strikes to put an end to the religious violence in the months that followed. At the age of 78, he started the last of these in Delhi on January 12, 1948. Some Hindus in India began to believe that Gandhi had been too staunch in his support of both Pakistan and Indian Muslims. Among them was Nathuram Godse, a militant Hindu nationalist from Pune, western India, who on January 30, 1948, at an interfaith prayer meeting in Delhi, shot Gandhi three times in the chest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, is observed globally as the International Day of Nonviolence and as Gandhi Jayanti, an official national holiday in India. In post-colonial India, Gandhi is revered as the Father of the Nation. In the decades that followed the Indian nationalist movement, he was also frequently referred to as Bapu, which is a Gujarati term for “father,” “papa,” or “daddy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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