All ABout Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi's fathers name was Mr. Karamchand Gandhi and Mother was Putlibai.

Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar a distric of gujrat state in India.

He got married to Kasturbai Makanji when he was 13 years old and was blessed with two children.

He studied law in London between 1888 and 1891 and went to South Africa in 1893 where he opened his own law office.

In 1906 Mahatma Gandhi began the Satyagraha movement in South Africa in protest to the law that all Indians should be finger printed and should also carry an identification card. He was joined by thousands of Indians in this civil disobedience movement.

Gandhi returned to India in 1915. He spent a year touring India on the advice of his political guru, Gopal Krishna Gokhale with the idea of knowing the 'real India'.

On completing the tour, Gandhi chose to settle down on the banks of river Sabarmati on the outskirts of the city of Ahmedabad where he opened Satyagraha Ashram.

In India, Gandhi started the first Satyagraha in Champaran at the request of poor farmers as they were compelled by British indigo planters to grow indigo on 15% of their land and were then forced to part with the entire crop in lieu of rent.