Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (M.K. Gandhi) known as Mahatma Gandhi was born on 2nd October, 1869 in a respectable Vaishya family of Porbandar state in Kathiawad. His parents were well to do people. His father karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi held a high and responsible post in the Porbandar state.  
 He received his early education at the local primary and high schools. After passing the entrance examination. He went to England to qualify himself for legal profession. He was truthful and honest from his very childhoods. He was very careful about his character. After qualifying himself for the legal profession, he returned to India and started practice in the Bombay High Court. He went to Natal in South Africa to appear in a case of his client. There he saw the Indians were subjected to utter humiliation by the European population of South Africa. He established the Natal Indian congress under its auspices, he led an agitation for the removal of those disabilities from which the Indians were suffering. He invented the new weapon of Satyagrha. He fought with his weapon tenaciously. He suffered imprisonment but the stuck to his resolve. His efforts imprisonment but the stuck to his resolve. His efforts met with a great success there. The European indigo planters in Bihar were oppressing the tenants very much. Mahatma Gandhi transferred his activities to Motihari. He took up the cause of the Indigo cultivators. His intervention brought about a settlement between them. Mahatma Gandhi started his non-co-operation movement in 1921. Since then he led the Indian National Congress. The Indian National Congress went on gaining strength under his able guidance. He led various struggles from to time for the Independence of the country. The Country reached its goal under his able guidance. Mahatma Gandhi was the greatest son of India. He was one of the greatest men the world has ever produced. He was great not because of his politics. His greatness lies in his moral outlook of life. Truth was not a virtue or ideal for him. It was the very breath of his life. It is this which armed him with the invincible power he possessed. He feared nobody. He was prepared to face the mightiest power of the earth for the cause of truth and justice. He made an intensive study of the Gita and followed its teachings in practical life. Mahatma Gandhi succeeded in bringing about the political salvation of India. He wanted to see the supremacy of truth and non-violence in the whole world. But the future of the world can be safe only when if follows the path shown by him. He was shot dead while going to attend a prayer meeting on the 30th of January, 1948 at Delhi. India the whole is poorer today on account of his death. May his soul rest in peace.

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