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4. After England









                                                                                                                                         When Gandhi became 22, he was



                                                                                                                                         called to the bar, which means that he




                                                                                                                                         was eligible for arguing and pressing



                                                                                                                                         cases at court, becoming a barrister.



                                                                                                                                         He returned for India when he


            He participated in vegetarian dining                                                                                         learned that his mother had passed




            groups as well as the Theosophical                                                                                           away and that his family was keeping



            society in England, and studied                                                                                              the news from him deliberately. In



            Buddhism and Hinduism as well as                                                                                             Bombay, he tried practicing law




            their texts and literature with the                                                                                          but was unable to do so because



            English.                                                                                                                     of  the inability to cross examine
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