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Introduction

When Gandhi was born British rule had been established in India.

The uprising of 1857, known as the Mutiny, had merely served to consolidate the British adventure into an empire. India had effectively passed under British tutelage, so effectively indeed, that instead of resenting alien rule the generation of educated Indians were eager to submit to the "Civilizing mission" of their foreign masters.

Political subjection had been reinforced by intellectual and moral servility. It seemed that the British empire in India was safe for centuries.
When Gandhi died it was India, a free nation that mourned his loss.

Mohandas Gandhi was born in India in and led India's independence movement against British rule through non-violent civil disobedience.

Gandhi was born in an influential Baniya family at Porbandar on October 2, His father and grandfather had been prime ministers in several.

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Gandhi is revered as a historic leader, the father of Indian independence, and the inspiration for nonviolent protest around the world.

Gandhi is more than a religious revivalist and a holy man," writes the English publicist Percival Landon, "he i~ a Mahatma, to whom almost.

The disinherited had recovered their heritage and the "dumb millions" had found their voice. The disarmed had won a great battle and had in the process evolved a moral force such as to compel the attention, and to some degree, the admiration, of the world.

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