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 girl (Fischer, 13). The family was very well off with many homes, gold, and nurses. However, that did not have any affect on the way Gandhi felt about his schooling. He found it very unappealing and somewhat difficult to learn. Gandhi says this about himself: “I am an average man with less than an average ability. I admit that I am not sharp intellectually. But I don’t mind. There is a limit to the development of the intellect but none to that of the heart” (Gardner, 313). He was into smoking when he was twelve and stealing money at the same time to buy them. Today we would think of Gandhi as a rebel kid. Finally, some serious matters got this child’s attention. It was time for marriage at the age of only thirteen. The bride was thirteen also, with the name of Ka
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Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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