An AutobiographyIn his own words, the powerful story of Gandhi's progress towards becoming the twentieth century's most enduring figure of peace. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in western India in 1869. He was educated in London and later travelled to South Africa, where he experienced racism and took up the rights of Indians, instituting his first campaign of passive resistance. In 1915, he returned to British controlled India, bringing to a country in the