Studio photograph of Mahatma Gandhi ji, London, 1931. Elliott & Fry. Public domain.
1869–1948
Leader of mass campaigns against British rule who developed influential methods of nonviolent political action.
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Leader of mass campaigns against British rule who developed influential methods of nonviolent political action. Gandhi trained as a lawyer in London and developed satyagraha while challenging discrimination in South Africa. These campaigns combined moral discipline with organisation, negotiation and publicity. Returning in 1915, he joined local struggles before leading national.
Mahatma Gandhi is particularly known for Satyagraha, Indian independence movement, Salt March.
Mahatma Gandhi lived 1869–1948. This profile places that life within 19th and 20th Centuries and Indian History.
Gandhi opposed communal killing and the partition that accompanied independence. Assassinated by a Hindu nationalist in 1948, he left a global language of nonviolent resistance alongside debates about caste, gender and political compromise.
Gandhi trained as a lawyer in London and developed satyagraha while challenging discrimination in South Africa. These campaigns combined moral discipline with organisation, negotiation and publicity. Returning in 1915, he joined local struggles before leading national non-cooperation. His clothing, language and travel helped turn Congress politics into a broader movement, though participation remained uneven. The Salt March of 1930 challenged the colonial monopoly through a deliberately accessible act. Nonviolence constrained tactics but did not prevent repression, and other nationalists disagreed with Gandhi's methods and social programme. Gandhi opposed communal killing and the partition that accompanied independence. Assassinated by a Hindu nationalist in 1948, he left a global language of nonviolent resistance alongside debates about caste, gender and political compromise.
Gandhi trained as a lawyer in London and developed satyagraha while challenging discrimination in South Africa. These campaigns combined moral discipline with organisation, negotiation and publicity.
Returning in 1915, he joined local struggles before leading national non-cooperation. His clothing, language and travel helped turn Congress politics into a broader movement, though participation remained uneven.
The Salt March of 1930 challenged the colonial monopoly through a deliberately accessible act. Nonviolence constrained tactics but did not prevent repression, and other nationalists disagreed with Gandhi's methods and social programme.
Gandhi opposed communal killing and the partition that accompanied independence. Assassinated by a Hindu nationalist in 1948, he left a global language of nonviolent resistance alongside debates about caste, gender and political compromise.
Gandhi began work and political organising in South Africa.
A march to the sea opened a major civil-disobedience campaign.
Gandhi was killed in Delhi during the aftermath of partition.
Biographical claims are summarised from the sources above. Interpretation and disputed reputations are identified in the text rather than presented as settled fact.
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