Mahatma Gandhi qualified as a barrister through London’s Inner Temple. He traveled to England in 1888 to study law and joined the Inner Temple, one of the four Inns of Court in London.
Gandhi was called to the bar in June 1891. He then returned to India and attempted to establish a legal practice before accepting the South African assignment that began his long public career. A barrister was a lawyer qualified to represent clients in the higher courts of the period.
The Inner Temple is not a university and should not be confused with University College London, where Gandhi attended some lectures. Gandhi’s legal training was important to his early work, but his later influence came primarily from political organizing, ethical philosophy, and nonviolent mass movements.