MAHATMA GANDHI
MAHATMA GANDHI Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi :- October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule . Employing nonviolent civil disobedience , Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa is now used worldwide. In India, he is also called Bapu ji ( Gujarati : endearment for father , papa and Gandhi ji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation . Born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in coastal Gujarat , western India , and trained in law at the Inner Temple , London, Gandhi first employed nonviolent 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 t