Gandhis Early Life

Hello sir, I am PAram Singh. I am fromGAndhinagar. I have to make an assignment on Mahatma Gandhi’s early life. Can you help me by providing me some information about the Mahatma Gandhi’s early life?

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the
preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled
India.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was bornto a Hindu Modh Baniya family in
Porbandar.

As a child, Gandhi was described by his sister Raliat as "restless as mercury...either playing or roaming about. One of his favourite pastimes was twisting dogs' ears."


The Indian classics, especially the stories of Shravana and king
Harishchandra, had a great impact on Gandhi in his childhood. In his
autobiography, he admits that they left an indelible impression on his mind.



He writes: "It haunted me and I must have acted Harishchandra to myself times without number." Gandhi's early self-identification with truth and love as supreme values is traceable to these epic characters.

The family's religious background was eclectic. Gandhi's father was Hindu and his mother was from a Pranami Vaishnava family.

On 21 January 1879, Mohandas entered the local taluk (district) school in
Rajkot, not far from his home. At school, he was taught the rudiments of
arithmetic, history, the Gujarati language and geography.

Despite being only an average student in his year there, in October 1880 he
sat the entrance examinations for Kathiawar High School, also in Rajkot.
He passed the examinations with a creditable average of 64 percent and
was enrolled the following year.

In May 1883, the 13-year-old Mohandas was married to 14-year-old Kasturbai Makhanji Kapadia in an arranged child marriage, according to the custom of the region at that time.
In the process, he lost a year at school.


In November 1887, he sat the regional matriculation exams in Ahmedabad, writing exams in arithmetic, history, geography, natural science, English and
Gujarati.

He passed with an overall average of 40 percent.

In January 1888, he enrolled at Samaldas College in Bhavnagar State, then
the sole degree-granting institution of higher education in the region