Mahatma Gandhi : Life and Struggle from Beginning to End

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for Indias independence from British rule and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: great-souled venerable) first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa is now used throughout the world.Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat Gandhi trained in the law at the Inner Temple London and was called to the bar at age 22 in June 1891. After two uncertain years in India where he was unable to start a successful law practice he moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit. He went on to live in South Africa for 21 years. It was here that Gandhi raised a family and first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights. In 1915 aged 45 he returned to India and soon set about organizing peasants farmers and urban laborers to protest against excessive land tax and discrimination.