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The Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya (Gandhi Memorial Institution) is a museum and public service institution dedicated to preserve the work and memory and commemorate the life of Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi. It is located at Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, India on the banks of River Sabarmati. It houses tens of thousands of letters to and ...
[3] [4] The Patna Sangrahalaya was established in 1967 [5] near the North-Western corner of Gandhi Maidan. It was a member of the Central Gandhi Sangrahalaya Samiti until July 1971, when the five museums (Ahmadabad, Madurai, Bairakpore, Mumbai, Patna) were made independent. Since then, Gandhi Sangrahalaya, Patna has been an autonomous ...
Gandhi Sangrahalaya is the name of several museums in India, most of them named after Mahatma Gandhi. It may refer to: Gandhi Sangrahalaya, Patna; Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya, Ahmedabad; National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi; Gandhi Memorial Museum, Madurai; Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum; Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya; Kaba Gandhi No ...
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy: A Biography by Begum Shaista Ikramullah (Oxford University Press, 1991) Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins; Gandhi's Passion by Stanley Wolpert (Oxford University Press) The Last Guardian: Memoirs of Hatch-Barnwell, ICS of Bengal by Stephen Hatch-Barnwell (University Press Limited, 2012)
Matangini Hazra (19 October 1869 – 29 September 1942 [1]) was an Indian revolutionary who participated in the Indian independence movement.She was leading one of the five batches of volunteers (of the Vidyut Bahini), constituted by the Samar Parisad (War Council), at Tamluk to capture the Tamluk Police Station on 29 September 1942, when she was shot dead by the British Indian police in front ...
The Sangrahalaya was then re-located into the well-designed and well-furnished museum building and was inaugurated by Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India on 10 May 1963. Memorial activities could then continue. Many buildings in the Ashram have names. There is a rich history of Gandhi's naming practices.
Popular 1930s poster depicting Gandhi using a charkha to spin cotton and weave cloth, captioned "Concentrate on Charkha and Swadeshi". The Swadeshi movement was a self-sufficiency movement that was part of the Indian independence movement and contributed to the development of Indian nationalism. [1]
The Matua Mahasangha (Bengali: মতুয়া মহাসংঘ [1]) is a Hindu reform movement that originated around 1860 AD in modern-day Bangladesh.Today, it has a considerable number of adherents both in Bangladesh and in West Bengal, India.