Mohandas Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869. He was born in Porbandar, which is a small, seaside town in the Kathiawar Peninsula in western India. It’s about halfway between Bombay and Karachi. He was the fourth child born of Karamchand who was the chief minister of Porbandar (Green, 13). His mother, Putlibai, was Karamchand’s fourth wife, and she was only thirteen when they got married. She was known as an illiterate, Hindu …showed first 75 words of 2367 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2367 total…among people, the reform of Hindu practices, the rejection of the caste system, female emancipation, the improvement of the poor, and economic progress for all (Neusner, 136). Gandhi will always live on because he ignited three of the century’s greatest revolutions. These were against colonialism, racism, and nonviolence. He enriched the lives of millions and eventually reshaped a country. Gandhi was a saint and a politician that proclaimed the power of love, peace, and freedom.