Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also widely known as Mahatma Gandhi) was an important leader in India during its independence movement, influencing people both spiritually and politically. He was born in 1869 in Porbandar in the Indian state of Gujarat and died in 1948. When he was 13, he was married to Kasturbai. After Mohandas Gandhi’s father passed away in 1885, he went to England to become a barrister. He passed the bar examination in 1891 and returned to India, where he discovered that his mother had passed away while he was overseas. In 1893 he took a job which sent him to South Africa, where Mohandas Gandhi first realized the degree to which racism was present in the world. He found himself the subject of discrimination as an Indian in South Africa, the best known example of which was an incident in which Gandhi used a first-class train ticket. A white passenger in the first-class area complained about Gandhi’s presence, so a railway employee tried to get Gandhi to move to the third
