Andrés Romero Jarrín

Gandhi

Summary Chapter 3

In 1896 Gandhi travelled to India to see his family, although he did not spend all his time with them because he had to arrange meetings in Calcutta. Gandhi was always very interested in preventing disease, and he preferred the work of a nurse to the work of a lawyer so in Rajkot the city where his parents lived there was great fear about a serious disease from Bombay.

Gandhi had some problems in his journey to Durban because the people of Durban did not want Gandhi to return to the city so he were kept for twenty three days but finally they were allowed to leave. For the next few years Gandhi stayed with his family. He continue to work for the Indians and to help the poor farm workers and as a nurse in a small hospital.

In 1899 a war started between British and the Afrikaners because in this year gold was discovered and they hated each other. Gandhi decided to help British, he believe that British Empire was a good government.

He was part of a group called "The ambulance corps" it was a group of more than 1000 Indians to help care for soldiers who were wounded during the war. In some of newspapers reported the work of Gandhi´s ambulance corps.

After the war, he went to Calcutta to meet other Indian leaders in the Indian National Congress after this congress Gandhi went back to Rajkot by train to know the difficulties that poor people lived in the third-class compartments.

Gandhi opened a law office in Rajkot and he was earning enough money for a comfortable life for his family.