3484 x 5216 px | 29,5 x 44,2 cm | 11,6 x 17,4 inches | 300dpi
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Pietermaritzburg South Africa
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Buildings Places Monuments – Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948), also known as Mahatma Gandhi, who led India out of the British Empire. Gandhi went to London in 1888 to train as a lawyer where received a law degree from University College, London. After he was admitted to the British bar he returned to India to practice law in Mumbai. In 1893 Gandhi left for South Africa. The 21 years that he spent there marked a turning point in his life. The racial indignities which he and his countrymen were subjected to there turned him into a political activist but he realizing that violence was not the way and he developed a new method of non-violent resistance which he called ‘satyagraha’ Gandhi finally returned to India in 1915 but only after the government of the then Union of South Africa had made important concessions to his demands, including recognition of Indian marriages and abolition of the poll tax for them. Returning to India Mahatma Gandhi travelled all over the country in order to familiarize himself with the land of his birth. Following this Gandhi went into politics becaming leader of the Indian nationalist movement transforming the Indian National Congress. Following the Amritsar Massacre in 1919 Gandhi led a nationwide campaign of passive non-cooperation against the government of British. He was first imprisoned by the British for 2 years in 1922. Mahatma Gandhi arrived in Durban, South Africa, in 1893. Not long after his arrival he was requested to travel to Pretoria.. The train journey first took Mahatma Gandhi to Pietermaritzburg. Having purchased a first class ticket he was understandably seated in a first class compartment Following a complaint by a European seated in the same compartment a railway officials ordered Gandhi to remove himself to the van compartment since 'coolies' and non-whites were not permitted in the ‘whites only’ first-class compartments. Even when Gandhi protested and produced his ticket it was all in vain a
