When he reached Bombay, he found out that his mother was dead.

He couldn't speak in the court, then he returned to Rajkot and started again, where he wasn't happy.
An offer from Dada Abdulla & Co. to proceed to South Africa on their behalf to instruct their counsel in lawsuit changed his life. Gandhi sailed for South Africa in April 1893.
It was in South Africa that the shy, timid youth of twenty-fout, inexperienced, unaided, alone, clashed with forces that obliged him to tap his hidden moral resources and turn misfortunes into creative spiritual experiences.
His client, Abdulla Sheth, received Gandhi in Durban.
Indians and other people were despised, humiliated by white people.A week late, Gandhi went to Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal, where his presence was necessary for a process. He would train in first class, was expelled for entering the third class of "guilt" of his color. Gandhi refused and was thrown off the train.
In the cold waiting room, Gandhi thought it was to fight for their rights or flee back to India, choosing the first option.

Insulted more times after that incident, Gandhi made contacts to convene a meeting with the Indian community that lived at the place, making his first public speech.
Several incidents showed the injustice and prejudice suffered on site.
Gandhi had many excuses to drop everything and run away, but put up with all the violence, injustice, prejudice, the insults, all that was left behind and Gandhi endured every day for a purpose: to help those in need.
Gandhi ended his legal work in the region, returned to Durban and went back home.
at a farewell dinner in his honor, someone showed him a news that the government proposed a law to cancel the civil rights of Indians.
Gandhi said it was "the first nail in our coffin" and urged his compatriots to resist with a "Concerned action"
Because of its great importance, asked him to stay for a month. He agreed, not knowing that one month would turn twenty years.

After this, Gandhi drew up a petition in the Natal Legislative Assembly. Volunteers helped by making copies of the petition and collecting signatures, making the printed help in advertising, so great was the effect.
            Even with all this work the project was accepted, but Gandhi did not give up. He began working in another application.
             A month later, the "mammoth" petition had ten thousand signatures and was sent to the secretary of state of the colony, besides a thousand copies printed for distribution.
            The newspaper "The Times", famous worldwide, acknowledged the justice of the Indian claim, and for the first time the people of India came to know the hard lot of their compatriots in South Africa
            It is noteworthy that Gandhi did not charge for their "services", only sulficiente what he said to keep your expenses (300 pounds).

From youth to studying in England

After matriculating in high school, Mohandas joined Samaldas College in Bhavnagar. He found difficult and the atmosphere uncongenial. Meanwhile, his father had died in 1885. A friend of his family suggested Gandhi to become a barrister and then take his father´s place in the state service, and said that he could do in England in three years.
His mother didn’t agree at the beginning, but he made her mind by the son’s solemn vow not to touch wine, women and meat.
Gandhi went to Bombay to take the boat. There, his caste people threatened to excommunicate him if he persisted in going abroad.
He didn’t care, and was formally excommunicated by his caste, but he went to England on September 4, 1888.
Few mouths earlier, his first son was born.
Firstly, he was surprised not only by the English people as the customs, being hard to stay. The fact that he was vegetarian only complicated even more.
The food difficult was solved when he found a vegetarian restaurant, and he became a vegetarian by choice and not because the vow he had taken.
The early period of his stay, he called “aping the English gentleman”, with new clothes, purchased a silk hat,etc..
He took lessons in French, and in elocution and learn ball-room dancing. But he soon realized that was a mistake, and that he couldn’t hide the real Gandhi.
He was introduced to Sir Edwin Arnold’s translation, to the Bible, Buddha’s life, etc… learning about others religions, and trying to comprehend more about then.
He went to India two days later after passed the examinations.

From birth to childhood.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in a small town on the western coast of India, states in Kathiawar. He belonged to middle class family. His grandfather had risen to be the Dewan or Prime Minister of Porbandar, succeeded by his father.  His mom, known by her saintly character, gentle and devout, left a deep impress on his mind.
Mohandas went to an elementary school, where he found difficult. He was seven years old when moved to Rajkot (another state in Kathiawar),where his father became Dewan. There, he went to a primary and later a high school.
He was a mediocre student, known by his excessively shy, timid and honesty.
When he was thirteen years old, he married to Kasturbai (same age).

Who is Gandhi ?

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He pioneered satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience using nonviolence, which helped India to gain independence, and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is often referred to as Mahatma Gandhi "Great Soul", an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian Bengali polymath) and in India also as Bapu ("Father"). He is officially honored in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence, which shows his importance not only in his country but in the whole world.