Joline towers biography of mahatma gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is born on October 2 in Porbandar, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, to Karamchand Gandhi and Putlibai.  At the age of 13, Gandhi marries Kasturba Makhanji, who is also 13 years old at the time.  Gandhi travels to England to study law at University College London and become a barrister.  Gandhi returns to India after completing his studies in England and begins practicing law in Bombay (now Mumbai).  Gandhi moves to South Africa to work for an Indian merchant&#;s legal case.

It is here that he first experiences racial discrimination, which leads him to fight for civil rights for Indians in South Africa.  Gandhi launches the Satyagraha (nonviolent resistance) movement in response to the Transvaal government&#;s discriminatory legislation against Indians in South Africa.  Gandhi returns to India and joins the Indian Nat