Trace the life of mahatma gandhi in about 350 words.
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Gandhi led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, upon many occasions, in both South Africa and India. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn hand-spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as a means of both self-purification and political protest.
Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism, however, was challenged in the early 1940s by a new Muslim nationalism which was demanding a separate Muslim homeland carved out of India.[10] Eventually, in August 1947, Britain granted independence, but the British Indian Empire[10] was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.[11] As many displaced Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs made their way to their new lands, religious violence broke out, especially in the Punjab and Bengal. Eschewing the official celebration of independence in Delhi, Gandhi visited the affected areas, attempting to provide solace. In the months following, he undertook several fasts unto death to stop religious violence. The last of these, undertaken on 12 January 1948 when he was 78,[12] also had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.[12] Some Indians thought Gandhi was too accommodating.[12][13] Among them was Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist, who assassinated Gandhi on 30 January 1948 by firing three bullets into his chest.[13] Captured along with many of his co-conspirators and collaborators, Godse and his co-conspirator Narayan Apte were tried, convicted and executed while many of their other accomplices were given prison sentences.
Gandhi's birthday, 2 October, is commemorated in India as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Nonviolence.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October, 1869 at Porbandar Gujarat. He was born to Karamchand Gandhi and Putlibai.
He was married to Kasturba at a very young age, 13 years. At the age of 18 he left for London to study Law. By that time he became father of a son.
Living in London, Gandhi joined the London Vegetarian Society because he promised his mother that he will always stay a vegetarian.
In the year 1891, he successfuly completed his study of law and for the next two years tried to practice law in India but was not successful in doing so. Afterwards he got an opportunity to practice law in South Africa.
At the age of 23, he once again left his family to pursue his carrier in law. Only a week later after arriving in South Africa he had to travel to another city regarding a case he was handling. It was a several day trip but during his trip he was asked to shift to third class car but Gandhi refused to do so as he was holding a first class ticket. A policeman threw Gandhi off the train. This incident was the spark which turned into fire later on when Gandhi decided to fight against the evils of discrimination.
For the next twenty years Gandhi stayed in South Africa and worked for the betterment of Indians and other black people.
Gandhi returned to India in order to bring his wife and sons back with him to Africa but there were a few more imporyant issues waiting for him i Indian.
He worked for the betterment of sanitation facilities in India which was a cause for the plague spreading in the country.
He returned to South Africa with his family but was attacked by a mob of white people on the dock. He sent his family back to safety but he himself stayed there for bringing the change.
In 1906, Gandhi came up with the idea of Satyagrah but in actual practiced it in the year 1907 in South Africa.
In the year 1915, he returned to India and after coming back made Sabarmati Ashram as his home. Rabindranath Tagore gave Gandhi the title of 'Mahatma'.
In the year 1919, Gandhi fought against the Rowlatt Act by following Satyagrah but called it off after the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre.
He began Salt March on March 12, 1930 and completed it on April 5. He organized a 'Quit India' campaign in 1942. Gandhi witnessed the Partition in 1947 and fasted for a few days in order to stop the violence going on during the Partition.
On 30 January, 1948 when he was walking to Birla House for his evening prayer he was shot 3 times in the chest by Nathuram Godse and Gandhi died on the spot.