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Mohandas Gandhi

Gandhi was a great man in a lot of ways he was born on October 2, 1869 in Western India. At the age of thirteen he married Kasturbi who was also thirteen before his father died. When he did his mother sent him to law school in England this was in 1888. While he was there he fell in love so to speak with the nonviolent ways of the Hindu scriptures of the Bhagavad-Gita, and in the bible tellings of Jesus.
He later retuned to India in 1891as a well trained lawyer but he was unsuccessful in starting a law firm so he sought work in South Africa. He received a job offer for a year and left his wife and children. In south Africa he became a leader in the Indian majorities fight to end discrimination creating the natal Indian congress witch as the Indian voice foe south Africa, he was also in the in the British army during the Boer war as a Indian medical commander . He ended up staying there until 1914 and his wife and children came in1896.
In 1914 he returned as a......

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