Mahatma Gandhiji

Mahatma Gandhi was born in 1869 in Gujarat, India. At the age of 22, he went to London to study law, which is where his strong belief in law and equal justice began. Soon after studying law, he began to be active in protests in southern Africa to help the treatment of Indian immigrants. It was in southern Africa where he began to strongly believe in non-violence. In 1915, he returned to India and became active in more protests. Gandhi’s main desire was to get India’s independence from Britain and he would do most anything to achieve that. Gandhi knew that many other Indians had the same wish, and he tried to encourage them to use non-violence. Gandhi mainly supported non-violence because he believed that “acts of violence against the British only provoked a negative reaction”