Gandhi, like Hindus, did not believe Buddha established a non-Hindu tradition.

The Vinod Gupta School of Management was built from alumni funding The Vinod Gupta School of Management ( VGSOM ) and Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law were established with donated funds from Vinod Gupta ( founder, Infogroup ) along with support from the government of India.

He was the Chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith ( university established by Mahatma Gandhi ).

Madressa Boys ' & Girls ' High School, Porbandar, was established over 125 years ago by Sheth Haji Abdullaha Jhaveri, the founding president of the Natal Indian Congress and a person who encouraged Gandhi to move to South Africa.

Khan Market (,, ), established in 1951, and named in honour of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan ( popularly khown as Frontier Gandhi or Badshah Khan ) has been ranked as the costliest retail location in India.

Mohandas Gandhi and the stretcher-bearing corps that he established earlier during the war was involved in a number of actions that took place in and around Ladysmith during the Relief.

* Indira Gandhi National Open University is established by an Act of Indian Parliament.

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, also known as MGM Medical College, is an Indian medical college established at Jamshedpur in 1961.

The Cochin University of Science and Technology – CUSAT -- ( 1971 ), Kerala Agricultural University ( 1971 ) and Mahatma Gandhi University ( 1983 ) were established, with CUSAT taking over the university ’ s centre at Cochin.

In 1904, Mohandas Gandhi, who had resided in nearby Durban since 1893, established a small village-like settlement, Phoenix Settlement, on the northwestern outskirts of Inanda.

* The Vishwaroop Temple and Dharmashala was formally established in 1903. The temple hall is named after Mr Gopal Krishna Gokhalewho visited Tongaat and the Temple during his visit to South Africa on advise from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Rajiv Gandhi Medical College and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital is a school of medicine, established in 1992 and based in Thane, in Kalwa, Mumbai, India.

* Adarsh Vidyalaya, located at the Mahatma Gandhi Marg ; established on 1974 by Dhaneshwar Sharma

* The Sevagram Ashram-An introduction to Sevagram Ashram established by Mahatma Gandhi and its message

Kasturba Gandhi College for Women is a university in west Marredpally of Secunderabad established in 1973.

Bihar National College was established in 1889, and as at 2010 is located near to the Gandhi Maidan.

The force was established in 1985 after the assassination of Indira Gandhi.

The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation was established on June 21, 1991.

Belgaum's railway station, the Mahatma Gandhi Railway Station was established by the British.

On the other side, Indira Gandhi established her own party christened Congress ( I ) and it included leaders like Shankar Dayal Sharma, Umashankar Dikshit, Kamruddin Ali Ahmad, Chidambaram Subramaniam, Barrister A. R. Antulay and Gulabrao Patil.

It now houses the Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum established in 2005.

An extensive library that was established in 1863, it is now housed in an elegant building, designed in anticipation of a visit by then Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, in 1987.

Berchmans Institute of Management Studies ( BIMS ) established in 1995, is under the management of St. Berchmans College affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.

In 1983, N. T. Rama Rao, a popular Telugu actor established his Telugu Desam Party ( Telugu Desam, meaning Land of Telugus ) with the support of people's dissent arising out of frequent changes in chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, on a platform of " Telugu Pride ".

Notably, Nava Toran temple at Khor, Sambharkund Mahadev ( 7 km ) it is closer to Suwakheda and Bhadwamata ( 20 km ), Bhanwarmata ( 25 km ), Sukhanandji ( 20 km ) ( it is closer to Jawad ), Sitaram Jaju Sagar-Harkiakhal Dam ( 15 km ), Gandhi sagar dam ( around 100 km ), Chittorgarh ( 56 km ), and Udaipur ( around 135 km ).

Benazir Bhutto deliberately attempted to warm the relations with neighboring India and met with prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1989 where she negotiated for a trade agreement when the Indian premier paid a farewell visit to Pakistan.

The goodwill relations with India continued until 1990 after V. P. Singh succeeded Gandhi as Premier.

Although Hardinge was the target of assassination attempts by Indian nationalists, his tenure generally saw better relations between the British administration and the nationalists, thanks to the implementation of the Morley-Minto reforms of 1909, Hardinge's own admiration for Mohandas Gandhi, and criticism of the South African government's anti-Indian immigration policies.

His remaining term was full of controversies on account of his soured relations with prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

However, the succeeding Rajiv Gandhi government attempted to re-establish friendly relations with its neighbours.

Against this background of active involvement in industrial relations, social work and local, state and national politics, the ideological base provided by Mahatma Gandhi and the feminist seeds planted by Anasuya Sarabhai led to the creation by the TLA of their Women's Wing in 1954.

" I discover, too, that he has not yet succumbed to the hysteria for politics which has attacked most of the young students in the towns, though India is now in the throes of the long turmoil which Gandhi has aroused into being in his effort to disturb the relations between white rulers and brown ruled.

Gandhi was assassinated in 1948, but his teachings and philosophy would play a major role in India's economic and social development and foreign relations for decades to come.

In Gandhi ’ s thought, ahimsa precludes not only the act of inflicting a physical injury, but also mental states like evil thoughts and hatred, unkind behavior such as harsh words, dishonesty and lying, all of which he saw as manifestations of violence incompatible with ahimsa. Gandhi believed ahimsa to be a creative energy force, encompassing all interactions leading one's self to find satya, " Divine Truth ".

Gandhi with Lord and Lady Mountbatten, 1947Given the British government's recommendations to grant independence quickly, Mountbatten concluded that a united India was an unachievable goal and resigned himself to a plan for partition, creating the independent nations of India and Pakistan.

Given Mountbatten's determination, Nehru and Patel's inability to deal with the Muslim League and lastly Jinnah's obstinacy, all Indian party leaders ( except Gandhi ) acquiesced to Jinnah's plan to divide India, which in turn eased Mountbatten's task.

Mainstream British cinema also reflected a change in attitudes, with Heat and Dust ( 1982 ), Gandhi ( 1982 ) and Cry Freedom ( 1987 ), although these did not directly address the experiences of minorities in Britain.

The INC was out of power between 1977 and 1980, when the Janata Party won the election due to public discontent with the corruption ( promulgation of Emergency with stringent forces ) of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

This rule was interrupted between 1977 to 1980, when the Janata Party coalition won the election owing to public discontent with the controversial state of emergency declared by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Indira Gandhi is associated with fostering a culture of nepotism in Indian politics and in India's institutions.

Nehru in 1918 with wife Kamala Nehru | Kamala and daughter Indira Gandhi | Indira

Nehru considered the salt satyagraha the high water mark of his association with Gandhi, and felt that its lasting importance was in changing the attitudes of Indians:

Gandhi did not disagree with Nehru's move, but felt that if he resigned, his popularity with Indians would cease to stifle the party's membership.

Relations between Nehru and Gandhi cooled over the latters refusal to cooperate with Cripps but the two later reconcilled.

The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan.

Gandhi led Indians in protesting the national salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in demanding the British to immediately Quit India in 1942, during World War II.

Indians in South Africa were led by wealthy Muslims, who employed Gandhi as a lawyer, and by impoverished Hindu indentured laborers with very limited rights.

The government successfully repressed the Indian protesters, but the public outcry over the harsh treatment of peaceful Indian protesters by the South African government forced South African leader Jan Christiaan Smuts, himself a philosopher, to negotiate a compromise with Gandhi.

After the black majority came to power in South Africa, Gandhi was proclaimed a national hero with numerous monuments.

Gandhi took leadership of Congress in 1920 and began a steady escalation of demands ( with Intermittent compromises or pauses ) until on 26 January 1930 the Indian National Congress declared the independence of India.

In August 1947 the British partitioned the land, with India and Pakistan each achieving independence on terms Gandhi disapproved.

In a June 1918 leaflet entitled " Appeal for Enlistment ", Gandhi wrote " To bring about such a state of things we should have the ability to defend ourselves, that is, the ability to bear arms and to use them ... If we want to learn the use of arms with the greatest possible despatch, it is our duty to enlist ourselves in the army.

In 1919 Gandhi, with his weak position in Congress, decided to broaden his base by increasing his appeal to Muslims.