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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Mahatma Gandhi as photographed in London in 1931 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a key Indian independence movement leader known for employing nonviolent resistance against British Rule to successfully lead the campaign. He was the pioneer of ...
Lanza del Vasto went to India in 1936 intending to live with Gandhi; he later returned to Europe to spread Gandhi's philosophy and founded the Community of the Ark in 1948 (modelled after Gandhi's ashrams). Madeleine Slade (known as "Mirabehn") was the daughter of a British admiral who spent much of her adult life in India as a devotee of Gandhi.
Photo by Dinodia Photos/Getty Images. Loved for his calm composure and humble simplicity, Mahatma Gandhi is known for unifying more than two hundred million people with his peaceful phrases ...
In 1915 Gandhi delivered an address to the students at Madras in which he discussed these vows. It was later published as "The Need of India". [9] He would deliver a speech on the Ashram vows every Tuesday after prayers. These speeches were published as a book Mangal Prabhat [10] in 1958.
This category is intended for Wikipedia image files depicting Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Media in category "Images of Mahatma Gandhi" The following 10 files are in this category, out of 10 total.
The introduction is officially written by Gandhi himself mentioning how he has resumed writing his autobiography at the insistence of Jeramdas, a fellow prisoner in Yerwada Central Jail with him. He mulls over the question a friend asked him about writing an autobiography, deeming it a Western practice, something "nobody does in the east". [1]
Swami Anand (8 September 1887 – 25 January 1976) was a monk, a Gandhian activist and a Gujarati writer from India. He was the manager of Gandhi's publications such as Navajivan and Young India and inspired Gandhi to write his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth. [1]
Harijan was founded to replace Young India, whose publication had ceased following Gandhi's arrest in January 1932. Ten thousand copies of the inaugural issue, edited by R. V. Shastri, were published from Poona on 11 February 1933 and contained several pieces by Gandhi on untouchability.