About the Book Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat. His father was the dewan of Porbandar; his deeply religious mother was a devoted practitioner of Vaishnavism (worship of the Hindu god Vishnu), influenced by Jainism, an ascetic religion governed by tenets of self discipline and nonviolence. At the age of 19, Mohandas left home to study law in London at the Inner Temple, one of the city's four law colleges. Upon returning to India in mid-1891, he set up a law practice in Bombay, but met with little success. He soon accepted a position with an Indian firm that sent him to its office in South Africa. Along with his wife, Kasturba Bai, and their children, Gandhi remained in South Africa for nearly 20 years.
About the Author Bijoy Bordoloi (born on 20th March, 1972 at Golaghat, Assam) graduated from Kaziranga University, Jorhat, Assam, with First Class Honours with Distinction in Sociology. He did his M.A. in Sociology, from Gauhati University, Guwahati securing First Class Second position. He holds Ph.D. degree in Sociology from Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam. He is a good teacher and a researcher. He has taught in different colleges under different universities for a decades. He has written about four books on Sociology and Political Science. He has contributed more than ten papers to leading journals as well as to different books and newspapers.
Preface Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat. His father was the dewan (chief minister) of Porbandar; his deeply religious mother was a devoted practitioner of Vaishnavism (worship of the Hindu god Vishnu), influenced by Jainism, an ascetic religion governed by tenets of self-discipline and nonviolence. At the age of 19, Mohandas left home to study law in London at the Inner Temple, one of the city's four law colleges. Upon returning to India in mid-1891, he set up a law practice in Bombay, but met with little success. He soon accepted a position with an Indian firm that sent him to its office in South Africa. Along with his wife, Kasturbai, and their children, Gandhi remained in South Africa for nearly 20 years.
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