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witnesses due to psychological



 stress. He started to live a modest




 life in his hometown of  Rajkot by



 drafting petitions for litigants, but



 when he crossed the wrong side of




 an English officer, he was unable to



 continue this profession.



 In 1893, he was contacted by a




 Muslim merchant in Kathiawar that   Africa to practice law once again. He



 wanted a lawyer from Kathiawar   became the lawyer for the merchant's




 heritage. This Muslim merchant   cousin in Johannesburg. Upon



 owned successful businesses in   arriving in South Africa, Gandhi




 South Africa. Receiving modest   was  immediately  discriminated



 pay, Gandhi agreed to go to South   against because of  his skin color
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