Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is known as Mahatma meaning ‘Great Soul’. He was an astute political campaigner who fought for Indian independence from British rule and for the rights of the Indian poor.
His example of non-violent protest is still revered throughout the world today. Find out how this man of peace and representative of India’s poor came from a privileged background and spent his teenage years as a rebel.