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15 Interesting facts about Mahatma Gandhi

1. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of india
during the Indian independence movement

2. Mahatma Gandhi went to England when he was 19 to study law.

3. Gandhi is officially honoured in India as the Father of the
Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi
Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International
Day of Non-Violence.

4. Mahatma literally translates to ‘great soul’ in Sanskrit.

5. Time Magazine, the famous U.S. publication, named Mahatma
Gandhi the Man of the Year in 1930.

6. In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi led hundreds of followers on a 240-mile
march to the sea, where they made salt from seawater in protest
against the British salt law, which made it illegal to possess
salt not bought from the government.

7. Mahatma Gandhi experimented with diets to see how cheaply he
could live and remain healthy. He started living principally on
fruit and goats’ milk and olive oil.

8. Mahatma Gandhi spoke English with an Irish accent, for one of
his first teachers was an Irishman.

9. On 30 January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was shot and killed on the
grounds of the Birla Bhavan (Birla House) in New Delhi.

10. Gandhi’s policy of Satyagraha, based largely on Hinduism, was
influenced by many diverse sources, including Christ, Leo
Tolstoy, and Henry David Thoreau.

11. When he was a child, he was afraid of the dark. 

12. He was married when he was 13 years old to Kasturbai Makanji.

13. He had a Law Office in South Africa. 

14. He influenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and millions of other people.

15. He spent most of his time fighting for the independence of India. He led the Salt March to protest against the British. 

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