Vaishnavi sannidhi biography of mahatma gandhi

After returning to India in 1891, Gandhi briefly worked in Rajkot, where he struggled to build a successful legal practice before moving to Bombay (now Mumbai).

However, he was not very successful and found it difficult to fit into the city's Westernised culture.

In 1893, Gandhi accepted a one-year contract to work at Dada Abdulla & Co., a firm of Indian merchants in South Africa, as a clerk and legal representative.

As part of his job, he required to assist with a legal case involving business transactions in order to resolve disputes through arbitration.

It was here that he first experienced racial discrimination himself.

One incident in particular had a profound impact on Gandhi. In June of 1893, he was travelling by train from Durban to Pretoria when he was ordered to move from first class to third class, purely based upon his race.

When Gandhi refused, he was thrown off the train, and had to spend a night sleeping in Pietermaritzburg train station.

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