Mahamanaba Gandhiji

In Porbandar, a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula that was formerly a part of the tiny princely state of Porbandar in the Kathiawar Agency of the British Raj, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, into a Gujarati Hindu Modh Bania family. His paternal grandfather, Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi (1822–1885), was the state’s dewan (chief minister).His ancestors were from the Kutiana village in the former Junagadh State.

Karamchand proved to be a successful chief minister despite having only completed his basic school and having previously worked as a clerk in the state bureaucracy. He married four times while he was in office. His first two marriages passed away when they were young, each having given birth to a daughter, and his third marriage produced no offspring. He asked his third wife’s consent to remarry in 1857, and that same year he wed Putlibai (1844–1891), a Junagadh native and member of a Pranami Vaishnava family. Over the following ten years, Karamchand and Putlibai gave birth to three children: a male named Laxmidas (about 1860–1914), a girl named Raliatbehn (1862–1960), and a third son named Karsandas.

Putlibai gave birth to Mohandas on October 2, 1869, in a dim, windowless ground-floor chamber in the Gandhi family home in Porbandar. Gandhi’s sister Raliat once referred to him as a young child who was “restless as mercury, either playing or roaming about.” Dog ear twisting was one of his favourite past times.Gandhi’s early life was greatly influenced by the Indian classics, particularly the tales of Shravana and King Harishchandra. He claims in his memoirs that they had a lasting impact on him. He claims, in his own words, “It haunted me and I must have acted Harishchandra to myself times without number.” These legendary figures are responsible for Gandhi’s early self-identification with truth and love as the highest virtues.

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