Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 to a Hindu Modh Baniya family in Porbandar (also known as Sudamapuri), a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula and then part of the small princely state of Porbandar in the Kathiawar Agency of the Indian Empire.

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October 1880 he sat the entrance examinations fo r Ka t h i a w a r H i g h School, also in Rajkot. He passed the examinations with a creditable average of 64 percent and was enrolled the following year.

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In May 1883, the 13-year-o l d M o h a n d a s w a s married to 14-year-old Ka s t u r b a i M a k h a n j i Kapadia (her first name was usually shortened to " K a s t u r b a " , a n d affectionately to "Ba") in a n a r r a n g e d c h i l d marriage, according to the custom of the region at that time.

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Salt March, also called Dandi March or Salt Satyagraha, major nonviolent protest action in India led by Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi in March–April 1930

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