Mohandas Gandhi was born in 1869 in Gujarat, India and educated in law in London. He faced discrimination as an Indian in South Africa, where he lived for 20 years developing his philosophy of non-violent civil disobedience. Through non-cooperation campaigns, Gandhi led India's independence movement and inspired millions. He fasted for religious harmony and advocated for economic self-sufficiency. Gandhi remained committed to non-violence until his assassination in 1948.

1. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• Mohandas
Karamchand
Gandhi was born
on October 2,
1869 in Gujarat,
India.
• He was
educated in law
at University
College, London.

2. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• In 1891, after
having been
admitted to the
British bar,
Gandhi returned
to India and
attempted to
establish a law
practice in
Bombay.

3. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• Two years later,
an Indian firm
retained him as
a legal adviser
in its office in
Durban.
• In Durban,
Gandhi was
treated as a
member of an
inferior race.

4. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• He wanted to
change the
elementary
rights for Indian
immigrants in
South Africa.

5. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• Gandhi
remained in
South Africa for
20 years, where
he experienced
imprisonment
many times.

6. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• In 1896, after
being attacked
and beaten by
white South
Africans, Gandhi
began to teach a
policy of passive
resistance.

7. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• Part of Gandhi’s
inspiration
comes from the
Russian writer
Leo Tolstoy,
whom Gandhi
admired very
much.

8. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• During the Boer
War, Gandhi
organized an
ambulance
corps for the
British army and
commanded a
Red Cross unit.

9. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• In 1910, he
founded a
cooperative
colony for
Indians called
Tolstoy Farm. It
was located
near Durban.

10. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• In 1914 the
government of
the Union of
South Africa
made important
concessions to
Gandhi’s
demands,
including
recognition of
Indian marriages
and abolition of
the poll tax.

11. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• Gandhi arrived
back in Bombay,
India in 1915.
• Europe has
already fallen
into World War I
by this time.

12. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• He became the
leader of the
Indian campaign
for home rule.
• Following WWI,
he launched his
movement of
non-violent
resistance to
Great Britain.

13. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• In 1919,
Parliament
passed the
Rowlatt Acts,
which gave the
Indian colonial
authorities
emergency
powers to deal
with
revolutionary
activities.

14. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• Gandhi’s
teachings
spread
throughout
India, gaining
millions of
followers.

15. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• Activities
against the
Rowlatt Acts
resulted in a
massacre of
Indians at
Amritsar by
British soldiers.
• There were
1,516
casualties.

16. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• Economic
independence
for India,
involving the
complete
boycott of
British goods,
was made of
Gandhi’s “self-
ruling”
movement.

17. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• Indians saw him
as a saint and
began calling
him “Mahatma”
(Great-soul).
• He thought that
by using non-
violence, Britain
would also
consider
violence
useless.

18. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• In 1921, the
Indian National
Congress gave
Gandhi
complete
executive
authority.

19. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• Series of armed
revolts broke
out against
Great Britain,
and Gandhi
ended the
campaign of the
civil-
disobedience.

20. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• While
imprisoned,
Gandhi
undertook a
“fast unto
death” to
improve the
status of the
Untouchables in
1932.

21. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• Gandhi formally
resigned from
politics in 1934
after being
replaced as a
leader of the
Congress by
Jawaharlal
Nehru.

22. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• In 1939, Gandhi
again returned
to active
political life
because of the
pending
federation of
Indian
principalities
with the rest of
India.

23. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• His first action
was a fast
which would
improve the rule
of the state of
Rajkot.

24. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• The public upset
caused by the
fast was so big
that the
government had
to meet the
demands.

25. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• By 1944, the
British
government has
agreed to
independence if
the two religious
groups resolve
their
differences.

26. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• India and
Pakistan
became
separate
countries after
the British
agreed to
independence in
1947.

27. THE LIFE OF GANDHI
• Gandhi was
assassinated on
January 30th
,
1948 by a Hindu.