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Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhiwas adewan(chief minister) of Porbandar state (which was then under British sovereignty), while his mother,Putlibaiwas an extremely pious woman. She was in fact, the fourth wife ofKaramchand.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd L front) and his wife Peng Liyuan lay a wreath to the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi, India, Sept. 18, 2014. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the Indian Independence Movement against British rule. He is internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest (satyagraha) t
In 1896 Gandhi went to India to fetch his wife, Kasturba (or Kasturbai), and their two oldest children and to canvass support for the Indians overseas. He met prominent leaders and persuaded them to address public meetings in the country’s principal cities. Unfortunately for him, garbled ver...
The name Mahatma Gandhi is now one of the most universally recognized on earth. Youth Gandhi was the youngest child of his father’s fourth wife. His father—Karamchand Gandhi, who was the dewan (chief minister) of Porbandar, the capital of a small principality in western India (in what ...