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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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Significant Deeds
- Supported women's emancipation
- recruited women to participate in campaigns
- opposed to child marriage and oppression of widows
- Principle of Non-Violence
- led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand women's rights and build religious and ethnic amity
- Peaceful acts of disobedience
- Nominated for Nobel Prize 5 times
- won once.
Never
- contributed to India's road to Independence
- Was a dominant figure in Indian politics
Background Information
- Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat, India.
- Since Gandhi was born into a privileged social class, he was able to receive comprehensive education
- He was the last child of his father and his father's fourth wife
- However, Gandhi proved to be a shy, soft-spoken, and mediocre student.
Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi
Not So Fun Fact
- Gandhi had a rebellious phase despite his general obedience. There was a time where he experimented with eating meat, smoking and some stealing which he later regretted.
- Father was Chief Minister of Porbandar and mother was religiously devoted which meant his upbringing revolved around teachings of pacifism and vegetarianism.
- Gandhi left Samaldas College in India to study to become a barrister at University College London in England
- At age 13, Gandhi married Katsurba (who was also 13) in an arranged marriage in May 1883
- After being admitted to the English Bar, Gandhi returns to India where he spent 2 years attempting to practice law but failed to do so due to his lacking knowledge of Indian law and shyness during trials.
- Katsurba had Gandhi’s four sons and supported him until her death in 1944.
- In 1893, he accepts a year-long contract at an Indian law firm in Natal, South Africa.
Why we put Gandhi in the
"Doing Good" category
Gandhi's Reasons
- Appalled by treatment of Indian immigrants in South Africa
- multitude of good deeds and political endeavors
Works Cited
- well-known peace advocate
- Witnessed and experienced racial bias
- ex. Despite having a valid train ticket, Gandhi was evicted from a first class train carriage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gandhi_mohandas.shtml
http://www.enlightened-spirituality.org/Mahatma_Gandhi.html
http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/gandhi.html
http://www.history.co.uk/biographies/mahatma-gandhi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
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