Father of Our Nation --------------------------- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, called Mahatma, is the father of our nation. He was born on 2 October 1869 at Porbandar in Gujarat as the son of Diwan Karamchand and his fourth wife ‘Putilibai’. In 1883, at the age of 14, he married Kasthurba Later he went to England to study law. In 1893 he went to South Africa to practice law. After his studies in England Gandhiji began his practice as a lawyer in Bombay and Rajcot. He was subjected to racial discrimination and organised Natal Indian Congress in 1894. There he started a weekly, Indian opinion 1904. Gandhiji experimented the weapon Satyagraha for the first time in South Africa in September 1906 to protest against the Asiatic Ordinance issued against the Indians in Transval Gandhiji’s first imprisonment was in 1908 at Johannesberg in South Africa. In 1899 during the Boer war Gandhiji organised Indian Ambulance Corps for the British. Gandhiji was humiliated and ousted from Peter Marits Burg Railway Station in South Africa. Gandhiji became a Brahmachari in 1906. Gandhiji started Tolstoy Farm South Africa in 1910. Gandhiji started the Foenix Settlement in Durban. Gandhian Era in Indian politics is from 1915 -1948. He returned to India on 9th January 1915, leaving South Africa for ever. January 9 is observed as ‘Pravasi Bharatiya Divas’ to commemorate this. _RTP_
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