Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) - also called “Mahatma”, “great soul”, Gandhi – is perhaps the most important man in recent Indian history. To many, he is a symbol of important Indian values, but he is also an unusual kind of hero and a freedom fighter.
When Gandhi was a young man, India was still a British colony. This meant that, India, although many thousands of miles away from Great Britain, was ruled from there; that it was the Parliament in London that decided the laws that ruled India, and that the English King was the official head of state to India. It also meant that, every year, millions of pounds and lots of natural resources were channelled back to England instead of benefiting India. This, of course, lead to more and more dissatisfaction in India.
Gandhi was a young lawyer who had himself been educated in England. Both here, as well as in South Africa, where he had worked for a while, he had experienced racism and injustice. These experiences inspired him to want to fight against the British colonial power in India, so that, on his return to India in 1915, both he and India were getting ready for the fight for national independence.
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