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His rise to the status of an iconic statesman and conscience of the world traces the birth of a nation, independent India. Gandhi epitomized the principles he dedicated his life to – a life which gave purpose to millions of people. Gandhi defied the might of imperial Britain, the most powerful nation in the early-twentieth century.His rise to the status of an iconic statesman and conscience of the world traces the birth of a nation, independent India. Gandhi epitomized the principles he dedicated his life to – a life which gave purpose to millions of people. Gandhi defied the might of imperial Britain, the most powerful nation in the early-twentieth century.His rise to the status of an iconic statesman and conscience of the world traces the birth of a nation, independent India. Gandhi epitomized the principles he dedicated his life to – a life which gave purpose to millions of people. Gandhi defied the might of imperial Britain, the most powerful nation in the early-twentieth century.

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He moved to Rajkot at the age of 9 when his father took on the role of a counsellor to the ruler and later the diwan. Gandhi joined Alfred High School in the city at the age of 11 and even lost a year when he got married at the age of 13 and struggled through school due to his father’s ill health. He was noted to be good at English, fair in arithmetic, weak in geography, good in conduct and bad in handwriting. The school was later renamed to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi High School in his memory and was shut down in May 2017 after 164 years, to make way for a museum.

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Early life and background. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 into a Gujarati Hindu Modh Baniya family in Porbandar (also known as Sudamapuri), a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula and then part of the small princely state of Porbandar in the Kathiawar Agency of the Indian Empire.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.

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In 1934 Gandhi resigned from Congress party membership. He did not disagree with the party's position but felt that if he resigned, his popularity with Indians would cease to stifle the party's membership, which actually varied, including communists, socialists, trade unionists, students, religious conservatives, and those with pro-business convictions, and that these various voices would get a chance to make themselves heard. Gandhi also wanted to avoid being a target for Raj propaganda by leading a party that had temporarily accepted political accommodation with the Raj.

Gandhi returned to active politics again in 1936, with the Nehru presidency and the Lucknow session of the Congress. Although Gandhi wanted a total focus on the task of winning independence and not speculation about India's future, he did not restrain the Congress from adopting socialism as its goal. Gandhi had a clash with Subhas Chandra Bose, who had been elected president in 1938, and who had previously expressed a lack of faith in nonviolence as a means of protest.Despite Gandhi's opposition, Bose won a second term as Congress President, against Gandhi's nominee, Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya; but left the Congress when the All-India leaders resigned en masse in protest of his abandonment of the principles introduced by Gandhi.andhi declared that Sitaramayya's defeat was his defeat