Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, India. He was the son of Karamchand Gandhi and Putlibai. At the age of 13 he was married to one year older Kasturbai.He passed the matriculation exam from Samaldas College of Bhavnagar Gujarat. On 4th September 1888, he traveled to England to study law at the university College London and to train as a barrister. In 1893 he went to South Africa.In 1906, the Transvaal government of South Africa launched a new act forcing registration of Indian population.There his methodology of Satyagraha was adopted by thousands of his followers.Thousands of Indians were jailed including him, beaten and punished for striking and refusing to register.At last the government compromise with Gandhi after more than of 7 years struggle.In 1915, Gandhi returned from South Africa to live in India. In india he saw the condition of farmers was very worse. The British power forced to grow cash crops instead of food crops necessary for their survival.They imposing taxes and leaving in an abject poverty.He organised a detailed study and survey of the villages, accounting for the atrocities and terrible episodes of suffering, including the general state of degenerate living. Building the confidence of villagers, he began leading the cleanup of villages, building of schools and hospitals and encouraging the village leadership to undo and condemn many social evils. And he was arrested by police on the charge of creating unrest and was ordered to leave the province. Than thousands of people protested and rallied outside the jail, police stations and courts demanding his release.Then he organized an strikes against the British government for signed an agreement granting the poor farmers of the region more compensation and control over farming until the famine ended. Gandhi felt an immediate need of a self-controlled government.Gandhi employed non-cooperation, non-violence and peaceful resistance against the British rule. He encouraged people to it. He also encouraged people to wear khadi clothes instead of foreign made clothes. Gandhi himself wore a traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, which he himself spun on a Charkha. There he got a big success nationwide and people from all sectors, including women of India participated in it. Gandhi was arrested in March and was send to 6 years imprisonment.When he was in prision the Indian National Congress split into two parts and struggle among Hindu and Muslims also took during this period.He was released in February 1924. Gandhi launched a new Satyagraha protesting the tax on salt. He marched from Ahmadabad to Dandi, Gujarat to make salt himself. Thousands of Indian people joined him in this 400km march which was marked as his most successful campaign against the British hold. n the history of Indian Independence struggle in which thousands of freedom fighters were killed, imprisoned and injured and violent clashes broke in every part of India. The demand this time was a complete freedom and immediate exit of the British from India.Gandhi and the committee of congress were arrested on 9 August 1942, and Gandhi was held in Aga Khan Palace for 2 years. During that period his wife Kasturba Gandhi died after 18 months of prison on 22 February 1944. At the end of the world war, India became free from British Government. Against the wish of Gandhi, British India broke into two parts, an Independent India and Pakistan.On Fri, January 30, 1948 a young man rushed from the crowd fired three shots from pistol. Within minutes Gandhi was dead. The killer was Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist who believed it was wrong for Gandhi to associate with Muslims.Gandhi's life and death torched people all over the world. His lessons of nonviolence, passive resistance, and civil disobedience would live on well beyond his life."The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.......
