find out from'the autobiography of mahatma Gandhi' or from the internet, what did Gandhi do when he was thrown off the train
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On June 7, my first act of civil disobedience, which eventually led to the formulation of my Satyagraha principles of peaceful resistance against the oppressive British Raj. On this very day in 1893, I was evicted from a train in South Africa’s Pietermaritzburg station because the compartment he was in was reserved for “whites only”.
This year, the Pietermaritzburg station will sport a Khadi look with trains draped in hand-spun fabric synonymous with Gandhi. The commemoration will continue over the next two days with events spearheaded by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. These include a youth workshop on Gandhi, a special train ride with an engine and coaches bedecked with 400 metres of khadi cloth brought in from India, and a banquet at which top politicians will speak at the local City Hall, which will be lit up in the colours of the Indian flag.
On the night of June 7, 1893, I Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a young lawyer then, was thrown off the train’s first class “whites-only” compartment at Pietermaritzburg station in South Africa for refusing to give up his seat. A white man had objected to me travelling in the first class coach in spite of the latter possessing a valid ticket. When I refused to move to the rear end of the train, I was thrown out. I had stayed at the station that night shivering in cold and the bitter incident had played a major role in my’s decision to stay on in South Africa and fight the racial discrimination being faced by Indians there. My doctrine of Satyagraha subsequently took shape during my’s stay in South Africa.