Mahatma Gandhi

✶October 2, 1869

†January 30, 1948

India

23 candles burning, 145 lit in all

About their life

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā, first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.

Leader of India's independence movement who pioneered satyagraha, the philosophy of nonviolent resistance, inspiring civil rights movements across the world.

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