Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi[20] was born on 2 October 1869[21] into a Gujarati Hindu Modh Bania family[22][23] in Porbandar
On 2 October 1869, Putlibai gave birth to her last child, Mohandas, in a dark, windowless ground-floor room of the Gandhi family residence in Porbandar city.
The family's religious background was eclectic. Gandhi's father Karamchand was Hindu and his mother Putlibai was from a Pranami Vaishnava Hindu family
At age 9, Gandhi entered the local school in Rajkot, near his home. There he studied the rudiments of arithmetic, history, the Gujarati language and geography
In May 1883, the 13-year-old Mohandas was married to 14-year-old Kasturbai Makhanji Kapadia (her first name was usually shortened to "Kasturba", and affectionately to "Ba") in an arranged marriage
Gandhi attended University College, London, a constituent college of the University of London.
In April 1893, Gandhi aged 23, set sail for South Africa to be the lawyer for Abdullah's cousin.[62][63] He spent 21 years in South Africa, where he developed his political views, ethics and politics.
Gandhi's first major achievement came in 1917 with the Champaran agitation in Bihar.
He began to live in a self-sufficient residential community, to eat simple food, and undertake long fasts as a means of both introspection and political protest.
Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, Gandhi trained in the law at the Inner Temple, London, and was called to the bar at age 22 in June 1891.