Mahatma Gandhi

Historical Milestone: Led India's independence movement against British colonial rule through *Satyagraha* (nonviolent civil disobedience); inspired civil rights movements worldwide Inner Temple, London (1888–1891): Married Kasturbai Makhanji Kapadia in an arranged child marriage at age 13 (1883; four sons: Harilal, Manilal, Ramdas, Devdas). Traveled to London at age 18 to study law at University College London and the Inner Temple (Inns of Court), called to the English Bar in June 1891. South Africa Civil Rights (1893–1914): Traveled to Natal, South Africa on a one-year legal contract. In June 1893, was forcibly ejected from a whites-only first-class train compartment in Pietermaritzburg despite holding a valid ticket—the pivotal trauma catalyzing his 21-year struggle for Indian civil rights in South Africa. Indian Independence & Partition (1915–1948): Returned to India in 1915, assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress. Orchestrated the Non-Cooperation Movement (1920), the historic 240-mile Salt March to Dandi (1930) challenging the British salt monopoly, and the Quit India Movement (1942). Deeply anguished by the 1947 Partition of British India into India and Pakistan, fasting to halt communal riots in Calcutta and Delhi before his assassination in 1948.