Mahatma Gandhi's Life And Life Of Mohandas Gandhi

Mohandas Gandhi was born in 1869, in India. Gandhi’s mother was illiterate, but her religious common sense and devotion positively affected his personality and character. He had a troubled and hard childhood, despite being born into a privileged caste, married at the age of 13, to Kasturba Makanji, a merchant’s daughter, also aged 13, as an arranged marriage. His teenager life was rebellious, by smoking, eating meat (which was not allowed with his culture and religion) and stealing change from household servants. Three years later, his father and young baby died. His childhood made him who he was, and affected greatly how he acted, and what he did later on in his life, particularly affecting his leadership positively. Interested in becoming

A famous quote of his ‘the religious spirit within me became a living force’, inspired him to continue. At the age of 37, in 1906, Gandhi arranged his first large civil-disobedience campaign, called ‘Satyagraha’, which translates to ‘truth and firmness’. The reason for the mob was a result of the new Transvaal government’s restrictions on the Indian’s rights, including the refusal to recognise Hindu marriages. Years of protests went by, and by 1913, hundreds of Indians were imprisoned, including Gandhi. A compromise was developed, and Gandhi was soon free to sail home from South Africa, the second Prime Minister of South Africa, and a philosopher, General Jan Christian Smuts wrote, ‘the saint has left our shores, I sincerely hope forever.’ The experience was an eye-opening one for Gandhi, and he had first-hand experience with racism, which not only effected his leadership but also his mind. He understood what was going on around him, and was not just someone who stood by and

Gandhi knew that he was defeated, and returned the medals he earned from his military service. Gandhi always had good intentions, wanting justice on those who deserved it, but the world wasn’t always in his favour.

As a result of the outbreaks, Gandhi stopped buying and using British-made goods, including clothes and other products. He started to use a spinning wheel to make his own cloth, and soon enough, the spinning wheel became a symbol of independence and self-reliance with Indians. Gandhi was known as leader of the National Congress and promoted a non-violence policy. As leader, supporters of the cause looked up to him, and was a very well-known leader.

Gandhi spent two of the six-year prison sentence in jail, after pleading guilty to three rebellions. After his release, he stayed away from politics for a little while, until the end of the 20s, where he arrived back in full swing, protesting Britain’s Salt Acts, which banned Indians from buying, collecting or selling salt which was a big part of the diet, but it created a giant tax on the country, particular the poorest