M.K.GANDHI

People used to call him "Mahatma", Who played a vital role in the Great Indian freedom struggle.He born on October 2nd,1869 in Gujrath at Porubandar. At 17 years old he went to London for higher studies. He back to home in 1891.

After the First World War Gandhi had hoped that India would be given a greater degree of self-goverment. He was disappointed with what the British government offered, and began to organise national protests. He taught that the British should be opposed non-voilently - not with weapons, but by organising people all over the country to desobey civil laws, to refuse to pay taxes and to boycott British goods. Such action was called Satyagraha.

India in those days imported large quantities of coth from Britian. Gandhi urged his followers to learn to spin, and to wear cloth made by hand as a sign that the people of India would be self-reliant and not dependent on the goods of other countries. Gandhi and the Indian National Congress(India's leading plitical party) organised bonfires of British cloth. The Nehrus, known for the stylish clothes they were, sent their woollens and chiffons to the flames.