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**__Mahatma Gandhi- What did he do and why?__  **
 * Mahatma Gandhi helped the Indians from discrimination in South Africa . They were treated like second class citizens in South Africa. Gandhi protested and fought for what he believed in. He studied law in England and then went to South Africa to help an Indian client, in South Africa Gandhi was sitting in a first clas compartment but was thrown out of the train because the compartment was reserved for the whites. Gandhi started some of his civil rights laws there in South Africa, and succeeded in changing the rules.

Gandhi lead India through independence and asked the whole nation to strike for one day. Nothing and nobody worked on that day. It was then they first realized Gandhi's power in India.

There was another very important event on India's way to independence, the British had control of the salt that was taken out of the sea. Indians had to pay taxes for salt nobody could live without. Gandhi thought the rule over the salt industry was one of the British** **basics. Gandhi then started a march over 320 kilometres to the ocean.

Mahatma Gandhi started to lead the Indian workers in South Africa and fought for their rights. He made a very important rule for himself which he used his whole life: never to use violence in his protests, even if others would use violence against him. Gandhi started using his non- violence rule and it had become a great success.**


 * [[image:gandhi_salt_200km_salt_march.jpg align="center"]] ||
 * **Gandhi leading the 200 kilometre salt march on April 6th 1930. ** ||

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