![]() ![]() ![]() It was here - where he was treated equally by his colleagues at Inner Temple - that the foundations were laid for his battles with segregation and discrimination. ![]() It was in London as a young man that Gandhi first learnt to petition, to draft letters and make speeches. That inspirational man worked out who he was and what he stood for right here in Britain. The man who turned the politically unimaginable into the politically inevitable, whose work in South Africa paved the way for Mandela and whose doctrine of Satyagraha became the inspiration for the civil rights movement across the world. The first is that in putting Gandhi in this famous square we are giving him an eternal home in our country. View images from the Mahatma Gandhi statue unveiling ceremony An eternal home for Gandhi in our country ![]()
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