Mahatma Gandhi - a brief profile
Mahatma Gandhi - a brief profile Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in the small princely state of Porbander where his father was the Diwan (prime minister) to the ruler. Mohandas was a rather shy and timid child.At the age of thirteen he was married to Kasturba. When he was 19, he went to England to study law. In 1893, when he was only 24,Mohandas went to South Africa in connection with a legal case.What shocked him there was the way the Africans and Indians were treated by the white settlers. Gandhi decided to stay on in South Africa and for the next 22 years he devoted himself to improving the humiliating conditions under which Indians and Africans lived there. He showed the people a new way of fighting injustice without violence, for what one believed to be right.This, he called 'Satyagraha