Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Paragraph

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Paragraph

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar in Gujarat. After university, he went to London to train as a barrister. He returned to India in 1891 and in 1893 accepted a job at an Indian law firm in Durban, South Africa. Gandhi was shocked by the treatment of Indian immigrants there, and joined the struggle to obtain basic rights for them. During his 20 years in South Africa he was sent to prison many times. Gandhi returned to India shortly afterwards. By 1920, Gandhi was a dominant figure in Indian politics. He changed the Indian National Congress, and his programme of peaceful non-cooperation with the British included boycotts of British goods and institutions, leading to arrests of thousands. In 1922, Gandhi himself was sentenced to six years imprisonment. He was released after two years and withdrew from politics, devoting himself to trying to improve Hindu-Muslim relations, which had worsened. In 1945, the British government began negotiations which finished in the formation of the two new independent states of India and Pakistan. Gandhi was opposed to partition, and then fasted in an attempt to bring calm in Calcutta and Delhi. On 30 January 1948, he was assassinated in Delhi by a Hindu fanatic.