Happy Birthday Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in the city of Porbander in the state of what is now Gujarat on October 2, 1869. He had his schooling at around Rajkot, where his father worked as a consultant or prime minister to the local ruler. Although India was then under British rule, over 500 kingdoms, principalities and states were allowed autonomy in domestic and internal affairs: these were so-called 'native states'. Rajkot was one of those states.
Gandhi later recorded the first years of his life in his extraordinary autobiography, The Story of My Experimentswith Truth. His father died before Gandhi could complete their studies, and thirteen married Kasturba [or Kasturbai], who was the same age as himself Mohandas. In 1888 Gandhi sailed for England, where he decided to pursue a law degree. Although his major objections, Gandhi could not be prevented from leaving; and says his mother, a devout woman, made him promise to stay away from wine, women, and meat during his stay abroad. Gandhi left behind his son Harilal, after a few months.
In London, Gandhi found Theosophists, vegetarians, and others who were disappointed not only with industrialism, but the legacy of the Enlightenment. Themselves represent the fringe elements of English society. Gandhi was powerfully attracted to them, as it was to the texts of the major religious traditions; and the one thing in London, which was presented to the Bhagavad Gita. Here, too, Gandhi showed determination and resolute pursuit of its purpose and fulfilled its objective of completing their studies from the Inner Temple. He was called to the bar in 1891, and even enrolled in the High Court in London; but later that year he went to India.