The uprising that occurred in 1857, known as the Mutiny, was the act that converted India from an independent country into a British Empire. This was the rule under which Mohnadas (Mahatma) Karamchand Gandhi was born; when he died it was India, a free nation that mourned his loss. The disinherited had recovered their heritage and the "dumb millions" had found their voice. The disarmed had won a great battle and had in the process evolved a moral force such as to compel the attention, and to some degree, the admiration, of the world. The story of this miracle is also the story of Gandhi's life, for him, more than any other was the architect of this miracle. Since then, his grateful countrymen have known him as the Father of the Nation. Gandhi did not free India on his own, but his ideals and principles helped the people to find their own voice once again. The work he did, not only for India and her people, but in showing the world what morals were, and that violence is not always the answer. Gandhi taught others what peace, love and understanding really were, and that they were worth fighting for; not through wars, or brutality; but by taking other more productive steps to make ones voice heard. "Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe such a one as this, ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth." Einstein, if at the end he seemed like no other man, it is good to remember that when he began he was like any other man. (Nanda. 1954).
Mohnadas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India; a small town on the western coast, then one of the many tiny states in Kathiawar. He came from a middle class family, his grandfather had been the Dewan (Prime Minister) of Porbandar, and was then succeeded by his son Karamchand, Mohandas" father. He attended elementary school in Porbandar; at the age of seven his family moved to Rajkot, another state in Kathiawar, where his father became Dewan; there he went to primary school and later, high school.
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