A Biography of Mohandas Gandhi

In a small, ivory-colored house in Porbandar, on the coast of Kathiawad in western India, Mohandas K. Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869. His parents were Karamchand and Putlibai Gandhi.1 He was small and dark, and looked no different from the millions of other children born in India. Yet this was no ordinary child. He was to fight and over-come a great empire and, without taking to violence, set his country free. He was to be …

…his room at 5 o'clock and went towards a prayer-meeting. He passed through a cordoned-off path, accompanied by Manu and Abha, his grand-daughters. As he was walking along, a youth, named Nathuram Godsey, came forward as if to seek his blessings. He stood in front of Gandhi and at point-blank range fired three shots in quick succession. All the bullets hit the great leader. Gandhi fell, uttering the prayer, "Hai Rama, Hai Rama."4 . Gandhi was dead.