Gandhi in London, at the age of 18, Student of law later working as a Barrister – 1888

Gandhi in London, at the age of 18, Student of law, later working as a Barrister – 1888

Gandhi is unhappy at Bhavnagar College in Bombay and is offered the chance to study law at the Inner Temple in London.
The elders of his caste tell Gandhi he will be labelled an outcast if he travels abroad. He defies them and moves to London where he dresses in Western clothes. He finds kindred spirits in the vegetarian movement and at the Theosophical Society who help him to return to the traditional Hindu principles of his childhood: vegetarianism, no alcohol and sexual abstinence. Influenced by the society, Gandhi formulates his own ideas about the essential unity of all peoples and religions.

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In 1887, Mohandas Gandhi began his training as a British Secret Service agent in the capital of the Empire. His cover was "barrister" or "lawyer."
The British were determined to retain the "Jewel in the Crown" at any cost and that necessitated saturating India with British trained spies.