Mahatma Gandhi was the leader of the Indian Independence Movement against british rule .
He inspired civil rights and freedom movements across the world.
The title " Mahatma " was given to him in South Africa in 1914.
In India , Mahatma Gandhi was fondly called bapu and Gandhiji .
Mahatma Gandhi belong to a merchant caste family from coastal Gujarat in India.
He returned to India in 1915 started mobilizing farmers against excessive taxes.
He was imprisoned on several occasions for many years in South Africa and India.
Mahatma Gandhi wore simple yarn clothes woven with yarn hand span on a chakra.
He was stricked a vegetarian and undertook fasts and protests and self purification.
Mahatma Gandhi undertook his last fast on 12th January 1948 at the age of 78.
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