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Mohandas K. Gandhi, known to most of the world as Mahatma Gandhi, changed the world with
his fight for peace, fairness, and equality. He taught the world that violence is not the only wayto create change. Through his own example he showed the world that non-violence is the best
way to create change and that anyone, no matter who they are, can create change through
strength of character and perseverance.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born and raised in a small suburb of Bombay, India called
Porbandar on October 2, 1869. He was never a great student and always As was the custom atthat time in India, he was married at the age of 13 to Kasturba and his father died when he was in
only the tenth grade. He joined a college, but dropped out after just three months because he
didn’t like it. He then decided to go to England to get a law degree, and in September of 1888 atthe age of 18 he left for London. In 1891 he returned to India as planned with his law degree.
Then, in 1893 he decided to go to South Africa for one year to assist another lawyer . When he
saw the racial discrimination that that Indians in South Africa were subjected to he decided to
stay in South Africa and fight for the rights for those Indians and ended up staying there fortwenty years. It was there that he developed his famous non-violent civil disobedience technique
called Satyagraha. Finally, in 1915, after he felt that he had achieved his goals in South Africa hereturned to India and remained there until his death.
South Africa was not the only place that Gandhi used his amazing skills to cause a change for the
people. After returning to India he spent the rest of his life fighting for the independence of Indiaand for religious and racial tolerance within India. Gandhi played an extremely major role in
India’s fight for Independence. He taught the people his non-violent techniques through his many
newspapers and taught the people to be able to support themselves without the help of the
British. He organized boycotts on British goods and helped the Indian people show the Britishthat they were unwanted and unneeded in India, but he never once allowed violence . If the
people ever broke out in violence he would stop eating until the violence stopped. He was
extremely loved by the Indian people and when they realized he was starving himself thefighting always stopped. He spent many years of his life in jail because of what he fought for, but
felt that it was an honorable thing to go to jail for what you believe in .
Although Gandhi never fought in Europe, the things he fought for affected the Europeans
greatly. At the time Britain was the country with the most land across the globe and India was
one of its largest colonies. The loss of India from the British Empire greatly weakened Britainboth in land and resources. They no longer had their stronghold to the east and could no longer
so easily obtain resources like spices. Britain and France, throughout history have had an
ongoing battle at who is the stronger country, and although Britain was the stronger country at
the time, the loss of India helped France catch up by a large amount .
Because of Gandhi the people of the world learned the importance of non-violence and of
standing up for what you believe in, and that courage is not measured by physical strength.Because of Gandhi the face of the world was changed. The British Empire was greatly weakened
and the Indian people were free to rule themselves. Although Gandhi achieved a tremendous
amount of great things in his lifetime he died feeling that he had failed because he had not beenable to create peace between muslims and hindus.