Free Essay The Life of Mohandas K. Gandhi

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The Life of Mohandas K. Gandhi

Mohandas K. Gandhi was born October 6, 1869 in Western India. He was arranged to marry Kasturbai Makanji when they were both 13 years old, which he did. His family later sent him to London to study law, and he was admitted to the Inner Temple. When he returned to India in 1891, his mother died. Because of Gandhi�s shyness he was not very successful in the legal profession. So for a year, he took the opportunity of representing an Indian firm in Natal, South Africa for a year.

As a lawyer, Gandhi did his best to discover the facts and get parties to compromise in order to settle out of court. He aslo insisted on recieveing the truth from his clients, and if he found out they lied, he would drop their cases. During a farewell party (before he was to sail to India) Gandhi noticed in a newspaper that a bill was being proposed that would make it so that Indians could not vote. He was urged by friends to stay abd fight for their rights in South Africa.

Gandhi refused to take off his turban in court, and he was thrown out of first class on a train. He was also beaten for refusing to move to the footboard of a stage-coach for the sake a European passenger.

Which he succeeded in doing by 1951, when he returned to Africa with his wife and children, after being jailed in India many times as a result of the protests that he led.

When he returned to India, it was not long before he was taking the lead in the struggle for independence from Britain. Independence was finally achieved in 1947. But Gandhi was still not satisfied, considering the country was partitioned into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan.

He spent the last two months of his life trying to end all the violence, which led him to fast to the brink of death. In January 1948, at the age of 79, Gandhi was killed by an assassin as he walked through a crowded place in New Delhi.