Fathar of The Nation Mahatma Gandhi was born on 2 October, 1869 in the city of Porbandar in Gujarat.Mahatma Gandhi's full name was Mohandas Karamchandra Gandhi. Gandhi's father's name was Karamchand Gandhi and mother's name was Putlibai.
In 1883, he was married to Kasturba, then he was 13 and a half years old and Kasturba was 14 years old. When Gandhi ji was 15 years old, his first child was born, but he died soon. He then had four children: Hiralal Gandhi, Manilal, Ramdas Gandhi and Devdas Gandhi (1900).
He was educated in middle school in Porbandar and high school in Rajkot. He passed the matriculation examination in the year 1887, after which he got admission in Shamaldas College, but due to poor health, he left college and went back.
In 1888, Mohandas went to England to study law and become a barrister at University College London. According to the promise given to his mother, he spent his time in London. There they had a lot of difficulty related to eating vegetarian and had to stay hungry many times during the initial days.. Gradually, they found out about restaurants with vegetarian food. After this, he also joined the membership of the Vegetarian Society. Some members of this Society were also members of the Theosophical Society and suggested Mohandas to read the Gita.
Gandhi ji returned to India when his mother died in June 1891. He then started practicing in Bombay but did not succeed.
In 1893, he went from an Indian farm to South Africa (Natal) for advocacy work. At that time Gandhiji's age was 24 years. After about 20 years, once traveling by train, he was thrown off the train and in view of the injustice being done to the Indians in South Africa, he had political and social rights for the British to Indian and their own goods. Struggled for.