Free Mohandas K. Gandhi a life in Pictures Presentations in PowerPoint format

1876 as a child

This is the earliest picture of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
He is aged 7

Gandhi’s mother

Putlibai Putlibai had a strong spiritual influence on Gandhi
She was a devout Hindu, who used to fast regularly
She also took advice from a Jain priest

Gandhi’s father Karamchand

Gandhi’s father was a politician

He was Prime Minister of Porbandar, a small princely

state in Western India

1883 as a teenager

Gandhi played sports such as tennis and cricket
When he lied to his parents or stole from his brother he felt very guilty!

1890 in England

This the first picture of Gandhi in England.

Gandhi was a lifelong vegetarian

He is shown on a visit of the Vegetarian Society to the

Isle of Wight

1895 as a barrister

After a brief period back in India, Gandhi went to South Africa to practice law

He was retained by a firm of Muslim merchants, headed by Dada Abdullah Sheth

1899 ambulance corps

During the Boer War,Gandhi formed the Indian Ambulance Corps

“Their unassuming dauntlessness cost them many lives and eventually an order was published forbidding them to go into the firing line.”

(Mr. Vere Kent

Johannesburg Illustrated Star)

1908 recuperating

Gandhi was sometimes subject to physical beatings because of his activism

When this photo was taken he was recovering from a beating at the hands of other Indians, who objected to the compromise Gandhi made with General Smuts regarding the Pass Laws

1910: letter to Tolstoy

Tolstoy: “I want to tell others what I feel particularly clearly and what to my mind is of great importance – namely that which is called nonviolent resistance – but which is really nothing else but the teaching of love”

1912 with Gokhale

Many important Indians had become aware of Gandhi’s campaigning in South Africa

Here he is shown with Gokhale, a senior leader of the Indian Nationalist movement, who

became Gandhi’s political ‘guru’

1913 Transvaal march

A protest against the ban on Indian immigration, and the ruling that only Christian marriages were legal

Gandhi hoped the marchers would be sent to jail when they entered the Transvaal

Eventually there was a compromise with the government of General Smuts

1930 making salt

Gandhi is shown picking up salt from the beach – ‘making’ salt – which was illegal for Indians

Even today foreign companies try to prevent Indians using their own natural resources, such as drugs companies which try to patent Indian medicinal plants