My special dayis about Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi - Biography His real name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

He was born on October 2, 1869 in India, which was then part of the British Empire.

He was called Mahatma because it means “GREAT SOUL”.

Mahatma Gandhi - Biography When he was 13 years old he got married with Kasturba in an

arranged marriage. She was 13 years old too. They had 5 kids.

He studied law in London, when he was 18 years old.

Mahatma Gandhi - Biography After looking for a job in India, Gandhi obtained a one-year contract

to perform legal services in South Africa. He spent 7 years in jail in different moments of his life because he

defended Indian people´s rights.1. The British didn´t allow Indian people to travel in first class service

in trains.2. The British didn´t want the Indian people to vote.3. The British didn´t let them sell salt, an important food for their diet.

Mahatma Gandhi He fought very strongly against these acts of discrimination to the

Indian people but always in a peaceful way. He was against violence. He was a PACIFIST. In the late afternoon of January 30, 1948, the 78-year-old Gandhi was

shot by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist upset at Gandhi´s tolerance of Muslims.

The violent act took the life of a pacifist who spent his life preaching non-violence.

Godse and a co-conspirator were executed by hanging in November 1949.

Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes

“Happines is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony”

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”

Mahatma Gandhi

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