Skip to main content
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The face of Gandhi in old age – smiling, wearing glasses, and with a white sash over his right shoulder
Native nameમોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી
BornMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
2 October 1869
Porbandar, Porbandar State, Kathiawar Agency, Bombay Presidency, British India[1]
(present-day Gujarat, India)
Died30 January 1948 (aged 78)
New Delhi, Delhi, Dominion of India (present-day India)
Cause of deathAssassination
Resting placeRaj Ghat, Delhi, India
NationalityIndian
Other namesMahatma Gandhi, Bapu ji, Gandhi ji
Alma materUniversity College London[2]
Inner Temple
Occupation
  • Lawyer
  • Politician
  • Activist
  • Writer
Known forIndian Independence Movement,
Peace movement,
Nonviolent resistance,
Civil resistance,
Gandhism
Political partyIndian National Congress
MovementIndian independence movement
Spouse(s)
Kasturba Gandhi
(m. 1883; d. 1944)
Children
Parents
Signature
Mohandas K. Gandhi signature.svg

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; two October 1869 – thirty Gregorian calendar month 1948) be Associate in Nursing Indian activist World Health Organization was the organizer of the Indian independence movement beside British rule. use nonviolent direct action, Gandhi lead Asian country to independence with moved  travels for civil rights and independence crosswise the globe. The honorific sage – sensible to him initial in 1914 in South Africa – is at this point worn international. In India, he's conjointly decision Bapu and Gandhi Islamic Group, with celebrated because the Father of the state.
Born and lift in an exceedingly Hindu businessperson caste relatives in coastal Gujarat, India, and qualified in act at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi gap operating passive public breaking the principles as Associate in Nursing noncitizen elliptical in South Africa, within the native Indian community's fight back used for public human rights. Following his return toward Asian country in 1915, he position concerning organize peasants, farmers, with town laborers to grievance beside undue land-tax in addition as favoritism. Pretentious management of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi LED across the nation campaign used for various public cause along side used for come through Swaraj or liberty.

Comments