Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948)

was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi (Sanskrit: महात्मा mahātmā or "Great Soul", an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore) and in India also as Bapu (Gujarati: બાપુ bāpu or "Father"). He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and world-wide as the International Day of Non-Violence.

Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers in protesting excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, for expanding women's rights, for building religious and ethnic amity, for ending untouchability, for increasing economic self-reliance, but above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led Indians in protesting the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (249 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, on numerous occasions, in both South Africa and India.

Gandhi practiced non-violence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn he had hand spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as means of both self-purification and social protest.

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gandhi is one of the most successful politicians india ever had, he eventually had a part in india's independence from britain.

As a politician I do not admire him much, but as a person, I do. I do not idolize Gandhi - he was after all, just a man with his own shortcomings. There were many things that I do not agree with Gandhi. One that I remember is that he tried to retain the caste system (free of discrimination though) but I do not support this.

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I have known Mohandas Gandhi in high school during our lessons in Social Science. One of Mohandas Gandhi's greatest contribution to the world is his non-violence movement which became inspiration to a lot of people. He also lived a very simple life.

Gandhi was the greatest leader of indian politics who fought and gave up his whole life to get the independence from the british .

is mohandas gandhi is mahatma gandi's child or family?? i'm not familiar with india's government..