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Gujarati people
- Mahatma GandhiOn the day India won freedom, Gandhi refused to celebrate. He fasted and spun cloth in Calcutta, pleading for peace.
- Mahadev DesaiMahadev Desai kept a daily diary for twenty-five years as Gandhi's secretary. It fills twenty-two volumes.
- Devdas GandhiDevdas Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's youngest son, had to wait five years to marry Lakshmi. They wed in 1933.
- Gujarati peopleAn Italian traveler wrote that Gujarati people eat nothing with blood and kill no living thing.
- Kasturba GandhiKasturba Gandhi led fellow prisoners in prayer during her 1913 jail term in South Africa.
- Narendra ModiNarendra Modi became prime minister of India in 2014, and he was the first person to hold that office who was born after independence from the British Empire in 1947. He was born on the 17th of September 1950. Today he is the…
- Irfan HabibIrfan Habib spent decades studying Mughal land and tax records. The historian argued peasant suffering was structural.
- Vikram SarabhaiVikram Sarabhai never saw the Moon lander that carries his first name. Chandrayaan-2's lander, called Vikram in his honour, was meant to touch down near the Moon's South Pole on the 20th of September 2019. The man behind the name is often…
- NarmadNarmadashankar Lalshankar Dave, known to everyone as Narmad, was born in Surat on the 24th of August 1833. A song he wrote, Jai Jai Garavi Gujarat, is now the state anthem of Gujarat in India. Its author worked as a poet, playwright,…
- Sam ManekshawSam Manekshaw, the officer who became independent India's first field marshal, once told a surgeon in Burma that he had been "kicked by a mule." The surgeon had simply asked what happened to him. That dry humor ran through a military…