Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in the town of Porbander in the state of Gujarat on 2 October 1869. He studied law at University College of London. In 1891. He had been admitted to the British bar but after that Gandhi returned to India and started to establish a law practice in Bombay. He went to South Africa to work. There he faced humiliation and he found himself treated very shabbily and like someone of inferior race.
This realization changed the face of Indian dependence and freedom struggle.

Gandhi emerged as the leader of the Indian community, and in South Africa that he first coined the term satyagraha to signify his theory and practice of non-violent resistance. Gandhi returned to India in early 1915. He involved in numerous local struggles all over the country. After that Gandhi mobilize people for his non-violence movement. Gandhi became the international symbol of a free India. He lived a spiritual life. He did prayer, fasting, and meditation.

He drive many movements to free India. His famous movement was Quit India movement in 1942.

The British government seized and imprisoned him many times for his movements. After independence of India, because of his controversial decisions, Nathu Ram Godse killed him.