Iosif kiraly biography of mahatma gandhi

          This episode was studied by and came to influence independence movements—notably in Ireland, Fin- land, and that of Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma) in India..

          Early Life

          Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat.

          His father was the dewan (chief minister) of Porbandar; his deeply religious mother was a devoted practitioner of Vaishnavism (worship of the Hindu god Vishnu), influenced by Jainism, an ascetic religion governed by tenets of self-discipline and nonviolence.

          "Gandhi, Mahatma, The Life and Death of," by Payne, "Gandhi and Modern India," by Moon, Gann, L. H., and Duignan, Peter (eds),.

        1. "Gandhi, Mahatma, The Life and Death of," by Payne, "Gandhi and Modern India," by Moon, Gann, L. H., and Duignan, Peter (eds),.
        2. When Gandhi was still at the beginning of his life as a political activist, having moved beyond mere lobbying and legal petitioning, he attempted to put the.
        3. This episode was studied by and came to influence independence movements—notably in Ireland, Fin- land, and that of Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma) in India.
        4. “Mission christianity and interwar liberalism.” in Democratic Liberalism in South Africa: Its History and Prospect, 64–80, edited by Jeffrey.
        5. When Mahatma Gandhi was leader of the Indian National Congress in , he advocated for women's rights as key to modernizing Indian society.

          6. At the age of 19, Mohandas left home to study law in London at the Inner Temple, one of the city’s four law colleges. Upon returning to India in mid-1891, he set up a law practice in Bombay, but met with little success. He soon accepted a position with an Indian firm that sent him to its office in South Africa.

          Along with his wife, Kasturbai, and their children, Gandhi remained in South Africa for nearly 20 years.

          Did you know? In the famous Salt March of April-May 1930, thousands of Indians followed Gandhi from Ahmadabad to the Arabian Sea.

          The march resulted in the arrest of nearly 60,000 people, in