Gandhi’s Life by Sam 

 

   

A Short Biography 

 

Gandhi is important in India and the world 

because he led India to independence and was an 

example of nonviolence. He studied in England to 

become a lawyer and then went to South Africa. 

He was treated badly because he was Indian. This 

made him fight for equal rights. When he returned 

to India, he didn’t like the way the British kept 

control. He encouraged people to not buy salt or 

clothes from the British. This is an example of 

nonviolent protest. The British imprisoned him. 

He continued to want independence for India. He 

even stopped eating to show how important it was to 

him. Eventually India did get independence, but 

Gandhi was killed. He is remembered as 

Mahatma,or great soul.   

 

 

 

What Gandhi Believed 

Three things Gandhi believed in were: 

 

Here a crowd waits for 

Gandhi. He gave talks all 

around India. 

 

 

 

➢ Indians should have independence 

➢Everyone is equal 

➢Non-violence was the best way to get 

what they wanted  

 

 

 

Here Gandhi is picking up salt 

instead of buying it from the 

British at a very high price. 

 

Important Events in Gandhi’s Life 

 

1. Gandhi was born on October 2nd, 

1869  

2. In 1888, his family all contributed 

money so that he could go to college in 

London, where we 

became a lawyer. 

3. In 1894, he started the National 

Indian Congress to 

fight for rights of 

Indians in South 

Africa, where he was working 

4. In 1913, Gandhi succeeded in 

getting rights for Indian workers.   

5.Two years later in 1915 he moved back 

home to India. 

6. In 1920 Gandhi tells people not to buy 

British goods and 

instead weave their 

own cloth and 

gather their own 

salt. 

7. In 1925 

Gandhi is elected president of the Indian 

National Congress. 

8. In 1932 Gandhi stops eating to win 

rights for the Untouchables, the lowest caste. 

9. In 1947 British give India full 

independence, but Muslims wanted their own 

land. 

10. January 30, 1948. Gandhi is shot 

by a newspaper reporter while trying to stop 

fighting between Muslims and Hindus. 

 

Quotes by Gandhi 

 

★Morality is the basis of things, and that 

truth is the substance of all morality. 

Truth became my sole objective.1927 

 

★ I am 

a poor 

mendicant. 

My earthly 

possessions 

consist of six 

spinning 

wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat’s 

milk, six homespun loin cloths, and 

towels, and my reputation, which cannot 

be worth much. 1931 

 

★I believe in the message of truth delivered 

by all the religious teachers of the world. 

And it is my constant prayer that I 

may never have a feeling of anger 

against my traducers, that even if I fall 

victim of an assassin’s bullet I may 

deliver up my soul with the remembrance 

of God upon my lips.1947