Leo Tolstoy's writings inspired Mahatma Gandhi, a 20th century pacifist leader who avoided war and changed the fate of India. On August 28th of 1828, Tolstoy was born in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia, to Nikolay and Marya. His mother died when he two years of age, giving birth to a younger sister w...

Mahatma Gandhi was born in Porbandar in the present state of Gujarat on October 2, 1869. He studied law at a University in London. In 1891 he was admitted to the British bar then later returned to India and tried to establish a law practice in Bombay with little success. He was hired by an Indian f...