Some of which are based on Theosophical interpretations and were notably represented by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who made clear throughout his life and his own commentary on the Gita that it was " an allegory in which the battlefield is the soul and Arjuna, man's higher impulses struggling against evil.

India's " Father of the Nation ," Mohandas K. Gandhi, was shot to death in 1948 by Nathuram Godse.

He was also deeply interested in the life and example of Gandhi, producing an unpublished book-length manuscript on his life.

It was on this trip that Doke's father contracted enteric fever and died soon afterwards ( Gandhi attended the memorial service and addressed the congregation ).

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.

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 Priyadarshini Gandhi ( Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī, née Nehru ; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984 ) was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms ( 1966 – 77 ) and a fourth term ( 1980 – 84 ).

Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and she remains as the world's second longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2012.

Gandhi was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India.

During her stay in the UK, Nehru frequently met her future husband Feroze Gandhi, whom she knew from Allahabad, and who was studying at the London School of Economics.

Gandhi was cremated on 3 November near Raj Ghat.

Over a decade later, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated.

Mahatma Gandhi was deeply influenced ( particularly through the guidance of Shrimad Rajchandra ) by Jain tenets such as peaceful, protective living and honesty, and made them an integral part of his own philosophy.

He was the father of Indira Gandhi and the maternal grandfather of Rajiv Gandhi, who were to later serve as the third and sixth Prime Ministers of India, respectively.

Nehru was one of the leaders who objected to the time given to the British-he pressed Gandhi to demand immediate actions from the British.

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:

Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, was able to fulfill her father's dream by the 42nd amendment ( 1976 ) of the Indian constitution by which India officially became " socialist " and " secular ".

Nehru had hoped to elevate Maulana Azad as the pre-eminent leaders of Indian Muslims, but in this, he was undermined by Gandhi, who continued to treat Jinnah as the voice of Indian Muslims.

Gandhi was not.

Following the Quit India resolution passed by the Congress party in Bombay ( now Mumbai ) on 8 Aug 1942, the entire Congress working committee, including Gandhi and Nehru, was arrested and imprisoned.

His prestige was restored unwittingly by Gandhi, who had been released from prison on medical grounds in May 1944 and had met Jinnah in Bombay in September.

On 30 January 1948, Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi was shot while he was walking to a platform from which he was to address a prayer meeting.

Failure to realize such divided loyalties led to the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards in 1984.

* 1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

He was assassinated on 30 January 1948 by a Hindu nationalist who thought Gandhi was too sympathetic to India's Muslims.

* 1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.

* 1984 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two security guards.

Rajiv Gandhi was in West Bengal when his mother, Indira Gandhi was assassinated on 31 October 1984 by two of her Sikh bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, to avenge the military attack on the Harmandir Sahib ( Sikhism's holiest shrine, also called " The Golden Temple ") during Operation Blue Star.

On 21 May 1991, Rajiv Gandhi was campaigning in favour of a UCPI candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Tamil Nadu, when he was assassinated by a suicide bomber in the Indian town of Sriperumbudur, near Madras.

* 21 May 1991 – In Sriperumbudur, India, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated.

* October 31 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her 2 Sikh security guards.

* October 31 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India ( assassinated ) ( b. 1917 )

** Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse.

** Mahatma Gandhi, Leader of Indian independence movement, ( assassinated ) ( b. 1869 )

** In Sriperumbudur, India, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated at a public meeting in Sriperumbudur, by suicide bomber Thenmozhi Rajaratnam ; many others are killed in the explosion.

* Why I assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, published by Surya Bharti, Delhi, India, 2003.

The Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards in retaliation.

The Central government attempted to seek a political solution to the grievances of the Sikhs through the Rajiv-Longowal Accord, which took place between the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Harchand Singh Longowal, the then President of the Akali Dal, who was assassinated a few months later.

Meanwhile, his father had joined politics and became the Prime Minister on 31 October 1984 when Indira Gandhi was assassinated.

In 1991, after Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by LTTE during an election rally, he shifted to Rollins College due to security concerns and completed his B. A.

Four months after the operation, on 31 October 1984, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards in what is viewed as an act of vengeance.

While the case was being investigated, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991 for an unrelated cause by the LTTE.

On 31 October 1984, Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards.