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GANDHIJI – Born on 2nd October, 1869 at Porbandar (Gujarat) and died on 30th January, 1948 at New Delhi. He was the youngest of the three sons of Putlibai and Karamchand Gandhi. The little house where Gandhi was born is now known as "Kirti Mandir".
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was his complete nameand he was born in a Hindu Modh family of Porbandar, Gujrat India. His parents were Porbandar Karamchand Gandhi (he was a diwan) and Putlibai, a Hindu of the Pranami Vaishnava and 4th wife of Karamchand. Gandhi was born into the vaishya, or trade, caste. From a very early age the belief of non-injury to living beings, vegetarianism, fasting for self-purification and mutual tolerance prevailed between the members of different castes, Gandhi had learnt this from his devout mother and the jain influences. At the age of 13, in May 1883 through his parents` preparations he was married to Kasturba Makhanji known as `Ba`.

He had four brothers - Harilal Gandhi, the eldest Manilal Gandhi, Ramdas Gandhi and Devdas Gandhi. An average student hardly passed the …show more content…

He could figure out the nuances any situation and work towards a situation accordingly. His fundamental principles were non-violence and self reliance. His entire political campaign for freedom and development was based on these two principles. This shows how calm and diligent he was when the English were playing stratergies on poor Indians he choose the path of non-violence. Gandhiji’s principles of politics stressed on self dependence and he lauched movements such as “Swadeshi ”,”The Dandi march”, he also wanted to spread the word about boycotting English products and leave them helpless, which were great ideas according to me as he did not harm anybody but did his job too. The movement in Champaran began as the act of defiance. According to me everything that Gandhi did was an attempt to mould India into a free India who could stand on his

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