Who is Mohandas Gandhi from Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education: A Biographical Introduction and what is their importance?

Mohandas Gandhi was called "the father of Indian independence." He lived when a new social and political order was developing to replace an old order that began in 1639 India when Great Britain took control of the country. Mohandas Gandhi lived from 1869-1948 and was born at Porbandar in 1869 to Karamchand Gandhi, an honest, practical politician and member of a commercial trading caste called Vaisya. He attended local primary and secondary school at a college preparatory institution and college in India. Subsequently he went to England to study law for three years. He returned to Bombay in 1891 to practice law. Subsequently he went to South Africa for an Indian commercial firm as legal counsel from 1893 to 1901. He established an ashram at Tolstoy Farm in the Transvaal of South Africa to train associates in the methods and rationale of nonviolent resistance. Gandhi believed in uniting the Indian people regardless of class to combat illiteracy and integrate popular education in Indian life. Gandhi proposed craft-based education to learn purposeful and meaningful ways to build socially integrated communities with essential skill for an economic base.