Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India, in 1869. He was assassinated in 1948. Though in school he was rated as only "good at English, fair in Arithmetic and weak in Geography," he would go on to become a lawyer and spend twenty years in South Africa before returning to a still-colonial India. There he led the Indian independence movement, which culminated to the Indian Independence Act of 1947. His philosophy...