When a European magistrate in Durban asked him to take off his turban, he refused and left the courtroom. Gandhi was appalled by the discrimination he experienced as an Indian immigrant in South Africa. The march resulted in the arrest of nearly 60,000 people, including Gandhi himself. Along with his wife, Kasturbai, and their children, Gandhi remained in South Africa for nearly 20 years.ĭid you know? In the famous Salt March of April-May 1930, thousands of Indians followed Gandhi from Ahmadabad to the Arabian Sea. He soon accepted a position with an Indian firm that sent him to its office in South Africa. Upon returning to India in mid-1891, he set up a law practice in Bombay, but met with little success. 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. 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. The Nodal Ministry of the program is Ministry of Culture.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat. of India and the National Council of Educational Research and Training(NCERT). Approx 4.5 lakh students participated in the series.ĭiscover Gandhi is a joint initiative of Education Ministry, Govt. An Expression Series was organized by the CBSE on Mahatma Gandhi from August 19 to September 3, 2019. A national level function was also organised on 1st October 2019 with the Hon’ble Union Education Minister, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ as Chief Guest to celebrate the occasion of 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education is conducting various activities in schools for commemorating the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Government of India has decided to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Father of the Nation, at national and international level to propagate his message.

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