Mahatma Gandhi The man who would strive to personify humility, nonviolence, and the renunciation of worldly things was born on October 2, 1869, into a family of power and political influence. Mohandas Gandhi's grandfather, uncle, and father each had served as chief ministers for ruling princes of the small Indian state of Porbandar, in the Kathiawar region, midway down the west coast of the Indian subcontinent. The India that Gandhi grew...