Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, a coastal city that was born after the Bombay Presidency, British India. It was at the home of his ancestors, who was born today is known as Kirti Mandir, Porbandar. His father, Karamchand Gandhi (1822-1885), who belonged to the Hindu community Modh, like the sofa (a senior) of Porbandar state, a small principality in the Kathiawar Agency of British grandfather served was Uttamchand India.His Gandhi, Utta fondly called Gandhi. His mother, who came from Putlibai Hindu Vaishnava community Pranami was Karamchand's fourth wife, the first three women with apparently died in childbirth.Growing a devoted mother and the Jain traditions of the region, the young Mohandas absorbed the influences that play an important role early in his adult life, these include compassion to sentient beings, vegetarianism, fasting for self purification and mutual tolerance between people of different faiths.
Indian classics, especially the stories of Maharaja Harishchandra and Shravana, had a great influence on Gandhi, in his childhood. In his autobiography, he admits that he left an indelible impression on his mind. He writes: "I was obsessed, and I must have acted Harishchandra me many times." Principles of self-identification with truth and love as the highest value is attributable to Gandhi these epic characters.
In May 1883, Mohandas 13 years of age at 14 years old, was married Kasturbai Makhanji (his name was usually to "Kasturba," and shortened affectionately as "Ba") in an arranged marriage, child, according to the custom of the day of his marriage region.Recalling, once said: "Not knowing much about marriage, for us it's just clothing, candy and games with the family seriously." However, as is the custom of the country, it was time for the young bride to spend too much on his parents' home and away from her husband. In 1885, when Gandhi was 15, the couple's first child was born, but survived only a few days, and Gandhi's father Karamchand Gandhi, was previously year.Mohandas Kasturba and four children killed all sons: Harilal, born in 1888, Manilal, born in 1892, Ramdas, born in 1897 and Devdas, born in 1900. In his high school in Porbandar and high school in Rajkot, Gandhi remained an average student. Samaldas passed high school to College, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, with some difficulty. During this time, was not happy, partly because his family wanted him to become a lawyer.
Gandhi and his wife Kasturba (1902)
On September 4, 1888 Gandhi traveled to London to study law at University College London, where he studied under Indian law and jurisprudence [13] and as a lawyer in central London Temple.His time, the imperial capital train was hit a vow he had made to his mother in the presence of the Jain monk Becharji watched the departure from India, the Hindu rules of abstinence from meat, alcohol and promiscuity. Although Gandhi experimented with adopting "English" customs - dance classes, for example - could not stand bland vegetarian fare offers his landlady, and was always hungry, until he found one of the few vegetarian restaurants in London . Influenced by the book of salt, he joined the Vegetarian Society, was elected its board and started a local chapter in Bayswater. [6] Some of the vegetarians he met with members of the Theosophical Society, founded in 1875, had a more universal brotherhood, which was devoted to the study of Buddhist and Hindu literature. Gandhi are encouraged to read the Bhagavad Gita, both in translation and the original combination.There is shown an interest in religion before he became interested in religious thought and began to read both Hindu and Christian scriptures.
Gandhi was there, the bar, June 10, 1891 call. Two days later, he left London to India, where he learned that his mother had died while in London and that his family had received a message from him. His efforts to establish a firm in Bombay and later failed, after application and fobbed part-time work as a school teacher, who landed in Rajkot to a modest living drafting petitions for litigants to be a business, was forced to close when he found aa lack of a British officer. In his autobiography, Gandhi referred to this incident as an unsuccessful attempt to lobby on behalf of his brother. It was in this climate, in April 1893, a year long contract accepted by Dada Abdulla & Co., an Indian company to a position in the Colony of Natal, South Africa, then part of British Empire.
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