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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
(Mahatma Gandhi)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), was an Indian nationalist leader who established his
country's freedom by way of a nonviolent revolution. He was born
in Porbandar in the present state of Gujarat on October 2, 1869, and educated in law at
University College, London. In 1891, after having been admitted to the British bar, Gandhi
returned to India and attempted to establish a law practice in Bombay with little success.
Two years later, an Indian firm with interests in South Africa retained him as legal adviser in
its office in Durban. Arriving in Durban, Gandhi found himself treated as a member of an
inferior race. He was appalled at the widespread denial of civil liberties and political
rights to Indian immigrants to South Africa. He threw himself into the struggle for basic
rights for Indians.
Gandhi was inspired by Leo Tolstoy, Jesus Christ, and Henry David Thoreau's essay, "Civil Disobedience." He was assassinated in 1948 by a Hindu zealot named Nathuram Godse.
Autobiography : The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Conquest of Violence : The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict by Joan Valerie Bondurant
Book of Prayers by Mohandas K. Gandhi (Editor), Mahatma Gandhi, John Strohmeier (Editor)
Essential Gandhi; An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work and Ideas by Louis Fische
A Higher Standard of Leadership : Lessons from the Life of Gandhi by Keshavan Nair
