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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
He was born 2 October 1869 to Karanchand (Dad) and
Pitlibai (Mom). He was born and raised in Hindu Bania. Gandhi is the son of a
Senior Government Official. By time he was 13 he had gotten married to Kasturba
Gandhi, there she gave him four sons.
In 1888 he was 18 he had traveled for the first time
leaving his wife and newborn son behind, in order to study to become a
barrister or also known as a lawyer in London. Gandhi spent three months in
London to fit in to the English society; he had bought suits and fine-tuned his
accent taking dance and violin lessons. After three months of the expenses he
left he found it a waste of time and money.
A few days later Gandhi sailed back home. For two
years he attempted practicing the law in India, but unfortunately he lacked
both knowledge of Indian law and self-confidence at trials. He was offered a
year-long position to take a case in South Africa. Ate age 23 he set off from
home again arriving in South Africa in May of 1893. He was hoping to earn at
least a little bit of money, and also to learn more about law. In South Africa
he became a very quiet and shy man to a resilient and potent leader against
discrimination. After about a week in South Africa he was asked to take a long
trip from Natal to the capital of the Dutch-governed Transvaal province of
South Africa for his case. He had to travel by train and by stagecoach for a
several day trip. Gandhi had a first-class ticket for the train, but he was
told to move to third-class passenger car, he had refused; a police man came
and threw him off the train. Instead of wanting to go home to India, he
couldn’t let injustices continue and he wanted to fight to change the
discriminatory.
By time it was
1896 he had been living in South Africa for three years. Gandhi sailed back to
India hoping to bring his wife and his sons back with him. When he got back he
found out that there had been a bubonic plague outbreak, due to the poor
sanitation. Gandhi helped inspect the latrines of the untouchables as well as
the rich. He noticed the rich had the worst sanitation problems. On 30 November
1896 he and his family traveled to South Africa.
In 1948 Gandhi was walking to Birla House with a crowd
surrounding him as he walked, as well as being supported by two of his
grandnieces. A young Hindu Nathuram Godse stopped before him and bowed. Godse
rushed forward and shot Gandhi three times with a black, semi-automatic pistol.
Even though he had survived five other assassination attempts, this one sent
him falling to the ground, dead.
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