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Mahatma Gandhi
- Mahatma GandhiIndian independence activist (1869–1948)
- 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 "this one-time Inner Temple lawyer, now seditious fakir, striding half-naked up the…
- 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 one of history's most studied figures. The Gujarati name translates plainly as 'Kaba…
- 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, a place of communal living organized around a political struggle. That struggle…
- 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 a jail. It was the 15th of August 1942. Desai was fifty years old. He had been…
- 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 a historic compromise. Mahatma Gandhi had been imprisoned by the British. He…
- 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 weights: for India, it is Gandhi Jayanti, a national public holiday; for the rest of…
- 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. He wrote it in Gujarati, his native language, and within a year the British government in India had banned it…
- 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. In the autumn of 1899, the British Empire and the Boer republics of southern Africa were tearing into…
- Indian OpinionGandhi said it plainly: "Satyagraha would have been impossible without Indian Opinion." The newspaper was first published in Natal, South Africa, in 1903, and it would run until 1961. Printed in Gujarati, Hindi, Tamil, and English, it…
- 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. Its founder was a young lawyer named Mahatma Gandhi, then working as an attorney in Natal. What…
- 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. He had been walking to his evening prayer meeting, running about ten minutes late, leaning on the…
- 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. He abandoned his studies at Pachaiyappa's College on the spot and followed Gandhi to…
- Gandhi capAt the 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech of Martin Luther King Jr., many of the people standing on stage behind him wore Gandhi caps. The cap takes its name from Mahatma Gandhi, who created it during India's independence movement. It is white,…
- Shrimad RajchandraShrimad Rajchandra was seven years old when a neighbor named Amichand died suddenly of a snakebite. He had never seen death before. He asked his grandfather what it meant, but the old man tried to steer the boy back to his meal. Rajchandra…
- 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. Mahatma Gandhi later took the title and made it his own, publishing a journal under that name from…