Mahatma Gandhi · every age
What was Mahatma Gandhi doing at 47?
Thrown off a train at 24; beat an empire without violence
- c. 1917
Champaran, his first major campaign in India
Indigo farmers in Bihar against the plantation owners. He won concessions.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Portrait: Photo: Elliott & Fry (1931), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source