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Ghandi was a spiritual and political leader of India and the Indian idependence movement. Most people know him as Mahatma Ghandi, what means Great Soul. He spent time in South Afrika, where he was confronted with discrimination. That was one of the main reasons why he started to fight for the rights of the Indian people in Africa. Upon his return to India, he organized poor farmers and labourers to protest oppressive taxation and widespread discrimination. Gandhi famously led Indians first in the disobedience of the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 kilometers (249 miles) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in an open call for the British to quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, on numerous occasions, in both South Africa and India. With his non-violent protest and his campaings he tried to reach alleviation of poverty, the liberation of women, brotherhood amongst different religious and ethnic groups, an end to untouchability and caste discrimination, and the economic self-sufficiency of India, but above all he fought for the independence of India from foreign domination. Parts of his protests where also long fasts as forms of both self-purification and social protest. Ghandi’s principles where truth, nonviolence, vegetarianism, simlicity and faith. On January 30, 1948, Gandhi was shot and killed while having his nightly public walk on the grounds of the Birla Bhavan (Birla House) in New Delhi.
The Salt March (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Salt_March.jpg)
Ghandi in South Afrika (1895) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gandhi_South-Africa.jpg
