AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Settling in Natal, he was subjected to racism and South African laws that restricted the rights of Indian laborers. Gandhi later recalled one such incident, in which he was removed from a first-class railway compartment and thrown off a train, as his moment of truth.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gandhi had long disapproved of caste restrictions and untouchability. In his youth, he had shown remarkable irreverence for caste orthodoxy. He had once gotten into trouble with his Modh Bania caste council in India when he defied its injunctions to not go abroad in 1888. He was then nineteen years old.

Detailed explanation-3: -In September 1906, Gandhi organised the first Satyagraha campaign to protest against the Transvaal Asiatic ordinance that was constituted against the local Indians. Again in June 1907, he held Satyagraha against the Black Act. 7. In 1908, he was sentenced to jail for organising the non-violent movements.

Detailed explanation-4: -Gandhi himself experienced this discrimination when railroad officials ordered him to sit in a third-class coach at the back of a train even though he had purchased a first-class ticket. Gandhi refused the order and police forced him off the train. This event changed his life.

Detailed explanation-5: -In South Africa he faced another reality, where Indians were treated as inferior as a collectivity regardless of their caste. It is perhaps faced with this discrimination that Gandhi developed his ideas on the treatment of the untouchable.