Another occurred while taking a train to Pretoria when an official ejected him from the first-class compartment and pushed him out onto on the platform. This was but one of his many encounters with racism in the country. On one occasion, when a white magistrate asked him to remove his turban, Gandhi refused to do so and left the courtroom indignantly. Gandhi was deeply shocked by the discrimination he experienced in South Africa. The business wasn’t successful, however, and he eventually took a job as a lawyer in South Africa where he subsequently stayed for over 20 years. As a result of these parental influences Gandhi’s childhood was filled with self-discipline and nonviolence – characteristics that in adulthood went on to influence his political advocacy of peaceful resistance.Īfter attending law school in London and being called to the English bar in 1891, Gandhi returned to India and set up a practice in Bombay. His deeply religious mother was a devoted practitioner of Vaishnavism, a religion that worships the Hindu god Vishnu. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s non-violent philosophy led his followers to name him ‘ Mahatma’, which means ‘ the one with the great soul.’ Born in India in 1869, Gandhi became the most prominent leader in India’s long struggle for independence from the colonialist rule of Great Britain.īrought up in the coastal city of Porbandar, in the Indian state of Gujarat, Gandhi was the son of the city’s chief minister.
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