![]() ![]() The young Indian struggled with the transition to Western culture. In 1888, 18-year-old Gandhi sailed for London, England, to study law. In the ensuing years, the teenager rebelled by smoking, eating meat and stealing change from household servants.Īlthough Gandhi was interested in becoming a doctor, his father hoped he would also become a government minister and steered him to enter the legal profession. Young Gandhi was a shy, unremarkable student who was so timid that he slept with the lights on even as a teenager. ![]() His mother, Putlibai, was a deeply religious woman who fasted regularly. Gandhi’s father, Karamchand Gandhi, served as a chief minister in Porbandar and other states in western India. Indian nationalist leader Gandhi (born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Kathiawar, India, which was then part of the British Empire. Gandhi leading the Salt March in protest against the government monopoly on salt production. ![]()
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