, lived from 1869-1948 and was also known as Mahatma , was born in Porbandar, in the modern state of Gujarat, on October 2, 1869, into a Hindu family, Both his father and grandfather having been prime ministers of two adjacent and tiny states. After a modest career at school, he went to London in 1888 to train as a lawyer, leaving behind his young wife, whom he had married when she was in her teens. In London, encountered theosophists, vegetarians, and others who were disenchanted not only with industrialism, but with the legacy of Enlighten ....