At the age of 18 on September 4 1888, Gandhi went to University College London to train as a barrister.
He returned to India after being called to the bar of England and Wales by Inner Temple, but had limited success establishing a law practice in Bombay.
It was in this climate that (in 1893) he accepted a year-long contract from an Indian firm to a post in Natal, South Africa.
As a British-educated lawyer, Gandhi first employed his ideas of peaceful civil disobedience in the Indian community's struggle for civil rights in South Africa
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