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Mahatma Gandhi
- Mahatma GandhiAt 5:17 p.m. on the 30th of January 1948, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was walking through the garden of Birla House in Delhi, his grandnieces beside him, on…
- Gandhi–Irwin PactThe Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on the 5th of March 1931, and Winston Churchill was furious. He called it a nauseating and humiliating spectacle to watch…
- Kaba Gandhi No DeloKaba Gandhi No Delo is a house in Rajkot, Gujarat, India, and it holds a quiet distinction: for more than three decades, it was the primary family home of…
- Tolstoy FarmIn 1910, a community in the Transvaal province of South Africa took the name of a Russian philosopher: Tolstoy Farm. Mohandas Gandhi founded it as an ashram…
- Mahadev DesaiMahadev Haribhai Desai spent the last morning of his life exactly where he had spent so much of the previous twenty-five years: beside Mahatma Gandhi, inside…
- Poona PactThe Poona Pact takes its name from a jail in the city of Poona, India. There, in September 1932, a fast forced two of India's most consequential leaders into…
- International Day of Non-ViolenceThe International Day of Non-Violence falls every year on the 2nd of October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. A single date on the calendar carries two…
- Hind Swaraj or Indian Home RuleHind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule is a book that Mahatma Gandhi wrote aboard a ship traveling from London to South Africa in 1909.
- Indian Ambulance CorpsThe Natal Indian Ambulance Corps was born from a war Gandhi did not believe in, built by a community that had no obligation to fight.
- Indian OpinionThe first issue of Indian Opinion hit the streets on the 6th of June 1903. It emerged from Madanjit Viyavaharik's International Printing Press in South…
- Natal Indian CongressThe Natal Indian Congress was born on the 22nd of August 1894, and for exactly one hundred years it shaped the fate of Indian South Africans.
- Assassination of Mahatma GandhiMahatma Gandhi was assassinated on the 30th of January 1948, at the age of 78, in the garden compound of Birla House in central New Delhi.
- V. A. SundaramV. A. Sundaram was 19 years old when he heard Mahatma Gandhi speak in Madras in April 1915, and made a decision that would shape the rest of his life.
- Gandhi capMahatma Gandhi sat in conversation with Kaka Kalelkar during the early 1920s to discuss headwear options for Indian men.
- Shrimad RajchandraOn the 9th of November 1867, a boy named Lakshminandan Mehta was born in Vavaniya. This village sat near Morbi in what is now Gujarat.
- Young IndiaYoung India began life as a book written by Lala Lajpat Rai in 1916, setting out to explain the Indian independence movement to the world.