Tuesday 12 March 2013

Mahatma Gandhi was born in Porbandar, North West India, on 2nd October 1869, he was the man who lead India to independence, and who tried to end racism between Muslims and Hindus in India .

At the age of 13 Gandhi’s parents arranged him a marriage with Kasturba Makhanji, a girl also aged 13. Arranged marriages are very common in India.

He was born in a privileged caste and at the age of 18 he went to London to study law.

After that he came back to India, 2 years later in 1893. Some time later he went to South Africa in order to start his career as a lawyer. He spent 20 years of his life there, and  it was there that he started fighting racism, in a non-violent way.

In 1916 he returned to India and it was there that his movement for India’s independence began.

His way of fighting for independence was through civil disobedience like the boycott to british goods, school, courts and even English language... he also made strikes, protests, fastings, and he never used violence…

One of his famous protests was when the British introduced a tax on salt and he walked with thousands of people, 350 km to get his own salt from the sea.

India got independence on August 15th, 1947.

Gandhi kept on fighiting racism between Muslims and Hindus, but it continued. An extremist hindu didn't like Gandhi's attitude and he got killed by him.
 India got divided in what today is India and Paquistan, Muslims living in Paquistan .

He is also famous for his quotes… Check this video whit some of them... http://www.biography.com/people/mahatma-gandhi-9305898

                                                                                                             João Magalhães 11º A