Mahatma Gandhi was born and raised in a hindu merchant castle, family in coastle Gujarati, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London,Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an experted lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants,farmers, and urban laboueres to protest against excessive land - tax and discrimination.

Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, but above all for achieving swaraj or self-rule.He led India Independence and inspired movements of civil rights and freedom across the world. He lived modestly in a self-sufficent-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn hand spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as means of both self-purification and social protest.

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  India has the second largest population in the world, with over 1.2 billion people (1,205,073,612
  

  
  

  India belongs to the continent of Asia, it's bordered by the countries Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, China, Nepal, and Pakistan.

  
  

  The highest mountain in India is Kanchenjunga, standing at 8,598m (28,209 ft), which it shares with Nepal. Kanchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world.

  
  

  There are many different languages are spoken in India. The main ones are Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, and Urdu.

  
  

  Mahatma Gandhi is famous for the important part he played in gaining India's independence.