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Gandhi

Gandhi was born in Pobandar, India, on October 2nd 1869. His father died when he was still a teenager. At the age of 13, he married Kasturba Gandhi who was three years younger and the marriage lasts for 62 years until her death in 1944.

As a young man Gandhi left India and study law in London. Then he spent two decades working in South Africa securing rights for Indian expetriates. It wasduring this time that his political reform through non-violence which he called Satyagraha was born. This moment meant resistance of tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa, total non-violence, which led India to independence and inspired movement of civil rights an freedom across the world. This way, when he returned to India, Mohandas Gandhi emerged as politician and religious leader in the fight for Independence from Great Britain and was accorded the country's Father of the Nation. India freed itself from Britain on August 15th 1947. Five months later, on January 25th, 1948 Gandhi was shot by conservative Hindi.