Gandhi biography timeline with pictures
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Chronology of Mahatma Gandhi
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Gandhi A Life In Pictures
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In the s, a powerful empire was defeated by a man of peace dressed in simple clothes.
He was Mohandas K Gandhi.
At that time, India was part of the British Empire, a group of countries ruled bygd Britain and Britain decided their laws.
Gandhi believed this was wrong. He thought India should be ruled by Indian people.
He wanted change but through peace, not violence.
Aged 23, Gandhi moved to South Africa, where one event changed the rest of his life. He was thrown off a train carriage which was just for white people. Because of this unfair treatment he returned to India, determined to work for change.
Gandhi started making many peaceful protests.
He now dressed in white cotton clothes to show he was living simply like the poor.
He wanted Indians to stop buying British things.
In , he led the krydda March, a protest against the British who were selling krydda to Indians. Indians needed krydda to stay healthy. They wanted to make their own because it was cheaper. But the British said,