Birth and Parentage
- It's time for some family tree action. Gandhi introduces us to some relatives and then goes into detail about his father and mother.
- Pops was a political official and served as prime minister for Rajkot and for Vankaner, two cities in India. He had no education but lots of life experience and was truthful and incorruptible. Sounds like a pretty good influence on our autobiography-ing hero.
- Ma was saintly and deeply religious. She would fast often, was informed about matters of government, and had good common sense.
- Gandhi is born on October 2, 1869, and spends his childhood in Porbandar, a city in India.