Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on Oct. 2, 1869, in Porbandar, near Bombay When I was 19 I WENT abroad to study. I studied law at University College in London. . Fellow students USE TO snuB ME because I was an Indian. In MY lonely hours I studied philosophy. In MY reading I discovered the principle of nonviolence as enunciated in Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," and I was persuaded by John Ruskin's plea to give up industrialism for farm life and traditional handicrafts--ideals similar to many Hindu religious ideas.
In 1891 I returned to India. Unsuccessful in Bombay, I went to South Africa in 1893. IN Natal I was the first so-called "colored" lawyer admitted to the supreme court. I then built a large p
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