"Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe ", wrote Einstein, "that such a one as this, ever in flesh and blood waited upon this earth."
Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, a small town on the western coast of India which was then one of the many tm stats in Kathiawar. He was bom in middle class family of Vaishya caste. His grandfather had risen to be the Dewan or Prime Minister of Porbandar and was succeeded by his sonKaramchand, the father of Mohandas. Putlibai, Mohandas's mother was a smiley character, gentle and devout, and left a deep impress on her son's mind.
When Gandhi was bom the British rule had a ready been established in Ml. The uprising of 1857, known as the Mutiny, had merely served to consolidate British adventure into an empire. India had effectively passed under British
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