Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in 1869. He grew up in Porbandar, a small princely state in Western India. Born into a Hindu family Gandhi was greatly influenced by many aspects of the Hindu religion. Aside from being a strict vegetarian he was also a strong believer in the power of prayer and the spiritual enlightenment ... 1885 by a group of wealthy men who wanted India to become a self-governing democratic country. The first project Gandhi undertook was called the Indigo Rebellion. For many years the Indigo farms in Champaran, India were run by British planters who employed Indians to work th...

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... battles continued until 1902 and were only suppressed through a severe strategymade up by the new British commander- in- chief Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener. He exhausted the enemy devastating the Boer farms which sheltered the guerrillas, taking the civil populationmainly women and children to concentration camps and building an extraordinary strategic chain of small iron forts for his troops. The Treaty of ... Republic?. Nevertheless, a fatal element of weakness lay in the persistent refusal of the Boers to treat the natives equally or even with common justice. The murder of Hermann ...

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