Mahatma GANDHI

Biography of M.K. Gandhi

The word Mahatma means great soul. Ghandi was born in India, on the 2nd of October, in 1869, At the age of six Gandhi went to school in Porbandar and had difficulty learning to multiply.

When Gandhi was thirteen, he was married to Kasturbai, a girl of the same age. Gandhi was sixteen when his father died. After that he went to England and studied law.

He fought for civil rights in India. He believed in nonviolence. Mahatma Gandhi died on January 1948.

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations by Gandhi• Hate the sin, love the sinner• Happiness is when what you

think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

• You must be the change you want to see in the world.

• An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Mahatma GandhiIndian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

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