Gandhi’s early childhood showed no sign of him growing up to become a political protestor. He lived a fairly normal childhood in India. He was in a normal middle class family that stood out in no ways politically or in wanting to protest. Once Gandhi finished high school, he left India to go to law school in England. Whil

Upon Gandhi’s return to India after his time spent in South Africa, Gandhi continued his protests against British rule of the Indians on the Indian subcontinent. During WWI, he helped lower class Indians organize and stand up against the higher classes and the rule of landowners (“Mohandas Gandhi” American … 4). This helped to further Gandhi’s popularity amongst all classes of India as well as the world, due to his charitable works such as these and his continuing crusade for Indian independence. After WWI, Gandhi continued his protest against British rule, through a protest against the Rowlatt act, which gave colonial leaders more power. These protests ended up being his most famous and most attention gaining protests, gaining him millions of supporters in both India and the rest of the world (“Mohandas Gandhi” U*X*L … 3). By this time, Gandhi had become a well-known activist all over the world and was continuing to rework his skills through further protests. He used his beliefs and native religion of Hinduism to base his practices on, such as ahimsa, or the equivalent of Christian love. Using religion, Gandhi was able to compare his resistance to the resistance of many major religious leaders to further strengthen the support that he had (Martin 2). In 1930, Gandhi led the “Salt March”, to protest high government salt taxes. In this demonstration, Gandhi led Indians on a march all the way across India to the ocean to collect salt instead of having to purchase the salt from the government, in a boycott against the taxes. This boycott resulted in economic issues for the British, as well as more public outcries and protests against the British control of the country (“Mohandas Gandhi” American … 5). Through these protests, Gandhi was able

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