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Research Paper On Gandhi

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Maohandas Gandhi Maohanda Gandhi was a man of many names. This meaning, he impacted many people in his lifetime and was recognized as many things. His birth name, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, later became Mahatma, which translates to "a great soul." The common people of enslaved India reffered to him as "Savior" and "the Father of India." He recieved these names because of what he did throughout his life. Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat. His father was a chief minister who had many wives before Gandhi's mother who all died in childbirth. Ganhi's mother was a deeply religious woman practicing the Hindu faith of the god Vishnu. When he was nineteen, Gandhi left home to study law in London at the Inner Temple, one of the city’s four law colleges. Upon returning to India in 1891, he set up a law practice in Bombay, but had little success. He soon accepted a position of law with an Indian firm that sent him to its office in South Africa. He remained in South Africa for nearly twenty years with his wife and four sons. …show more content…

He was beaten by white men, shunned, and asked to denounce his culture. Gandhi was compelled to lead a campaign against the countries laws that would last for the next eight years. During the resistance's final phase in 1913, hundreds of Indians living in South Africa, including women, went to jail, and thousands of Indian miners were imprisoned, flogged and even shot. South Africa leadership, under the pressures of the resistance, eventually accepted a compromise negotiated by Gandhi himself. Gandhi then returned to India in hopes of raising more awareness of the injustices that were held. By 1920, he was the most visible figure in the movement for Indian

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