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Redirected from Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Sanskrit : "great soul" Gandhi October 2 , - January 30 , was one of the founding fathers of the modern Indian state and an influential advocate of pacifism as a means of revolution. See also: Mahatmas. He helped bring about India's independence from British rule, inspiring other colonial peoples to work for their own independence and ultimately dismantle the British Empire and replace it with the Commonwealth.

He often stated his values were simple: truth , and non-violence.

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Gandhi was born on October 2 , , in Gujarat, India. He was the son of a local official and trained as a lawyer in London. He went to South Africa to practise law in and began his political career by lobbying against laws discriminating against Indians in South Africa. Gandhi drew inspiration from the writings of Leo Tolstoy , who in the s had undergone a profound conversion to a personal form of Christian anarchism.

Gandhi translated Tolstoy's "Letter to a Hindu" which was written in in response to aggressive Indian nationalists, and the two corresponded until Tolstoy's death in After the war, he became involved with the Indian National Congress and the movement for independence. He gained worldwide publicity through his policy of civil disobedience and the use of fasting as a form of protest, and was repeatedly imprisoned by the British authorities for example on March 18 , he was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience but served only 2 years.

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One of his most striking actions was the salt march that started on March 12 , and ending on April 5 , when he led thousands of people to the sea to collect their own salt rather than pay the salt tax. On May 8 , Gandhi began a fast that would last 21 days to protest British oppression in India. In Bombay , on March 3 , Gandhi fasted again in protest of the autocratic rule in India.

Gandhi became even more vocal in his demand for independence during World War II , drafting a resolution calling for the British to Quit India , which soon sparked the largest movement for Indian independence ever, with mass arrests and violence on an unprecedented scale. During this time, he even hinted an end for his otherwise unwavering support of non-violence, saying that the 'ordered anarchy' around him was 'worse than real anarchy'.