Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who used nonviolent resistance to lead the campaign for India's independence from British rule. His methods inspired movements for civil rights and freedom around the world. He wrote The Story of My Experiments with Truth. He was born in 1869 and killed in 1948. The honorific Mahatma, meaning great-souled, was first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa. Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, he trained in the law at the Inner Temple in London and moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit.