Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi October 1869160January 1948 was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in Britishruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapu in India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born onOctober 1869 to a Hindu Modh Baniya family in Porbandar , a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula and then part of the small princely state of Porbandar in the Kathiawar Agency of the Indian Empire. His father, Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi , served as the diwan of Porbandar state.

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