Death of mahatma gandhi biography

Fifty years ago on January 30, 1948, India's "Father of the Nation", Mahatma Gandhi, was assassinated.

Gandhi, one of the world's most famous pacifists, was killed by a fellow Hindu.

The name "mahatma" means "great soul", and his philosophy of peaceful resistance is widely credited with having forced the peaceful end of British rule of India in 1947, the year before his death.

He was born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on October 2, 1869, into a family of merchants.

Breaking with caste tradition, he went to England to study law when he was 19.

His fellow students shunned him because he was an Indian.

It was in London that he read Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience", which inspired his principle of non-violence.

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He returned to India in 1891. But two years later he left again, this time for South Africa where he was to stay for 20 years. He was the country's first "coloured" lawyer to be admitted to the bar.

Deeply troubled by the country's racism toward Vallabhbhai Patel FUTY