Mahatma means (Great soul). He was a non-violence person. This means that he never used violence.
Gandhi is called the father of India, because he helped Indian people to get free.
Mahatma Gandhi was born in Porbandar in India, on the west coast of Gujarat, on October 2, 1869. And died in 1948, when he gets shot by a Hindu man at a prayer meeting. The Hindu man killed him because of the split of Hindus and Muslims.
Mahatma Gandhi traveled a lot, because he wanted to tell people about his ideas for peaceful protest. But the British treated him and his followers badly. And they put him in jail many times, for breaking laws.
When he was 13 years old, he married Kasturabai. They got four sons. But he had to leave them, so he could study laws In London.
He is one of history’s greatest heroes, because he worked for the freedom of India. He did this in 30 years and finally, in 1945, the British leaved.
Mahatma Gandhi had a friend named, Jawaharlal Nehru, and in 1946, he became prime minister of India.
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