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• Mahatma Gandhi was the spiritual and political leader of India and an advocate of nonviolence. After Gandhi's death, his philosophy on peaceful resistance lived on through the Civil Rights Movement and continue to resonate decades later.

• Fast Facts

  1. Full name: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  2. Born: October 2, 1869
  3. Died: January 30, 1948
  4. British-educated lawyer and student of Hindu philosophy
  5. Imprisoned many times in both South Africa and India on various charges of civil disobedience
  6. The United Nations declared October 2nd International Day of Non-Violence
  7. Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse
  8. Godse and a co-conspirator were executed for the crime in November 1949

• About Gandhi

  At the age of thirteen, Gandhi entered an arranged marriage to Kasturba Makhanji. By the age of eighteen, he left India to study law at the University College London. When he returned home, Gandhi set up a law office in Bombay and soon after left for South Africa where he worked and faced anti-Indian discrimination. From this experience, Gandhi returned once again to India and decided to open an ashram to focus more on his spirituality. With local help, he tried to help poor villages and by 1921, was named the leader of the Indian National Congress. With this acknowledgment, Gandhi introduced his philosophies on peaceful resistance, a concept he learned after being arrested by the British for aiding those who were oppressed by the British administration.Time: Mohandas Gandhi(April 13, 1998)

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