date of birth
2 October 1869
death of birth
w30 January 1948[
mahatma was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed
nonviolent
resistance to
lead the successful
campaign for India's independence from British rulecampaign for India's
independence from British rule
Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, Gandhi trained in the law
at the Inner Temple in London
and
was called to the bar at the age of 22.
Gandhi raised a family and first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights. In 1915, aged
45
INC
Gandhi vision of an independent India
based on religious pluralism was
challenged in the
early 1940sBR
by a Muslim nationalism which
demanded
a separate homeland for Muslims within British India.
