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He was also deeply interested in the life and example of Gandhi, producing an unpublished book-length manuscript on his life.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

Firstly, her younger son Sanjay had been her chosen heir ; but after his death in a flying accident in June 1980, his mother persuaded a reluctant elder son Rajiv Gandhi to quit his job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981.

In this year, Gandhi was persuaded to preside over the Congress session to be held in Belgaum.

Although Nehru has a general concept of the inherent immoral nature of Nazism, Gandhi thinks they still can be persuaded, not heeding the warning from a Jew named Wiesenthal, who was able to flee Poland to India.

Many prominent figures of the Indian independence movement, including Motilal Nehru, were persuaded by Gandhi to renounce their smart London-made clothes in favour of khadi.

Gandhi extended his original period of stay in South Africa to assist Indians in opposing a bill to deny them the right to vote.

After becoming an MP, Feroze Gandhi also moved to Delhi, but " Indira continued to stay with her father, thus putting the final seal on the separation.

It served as a model for labour colleges around the world, and Gandhi made a point of visiting during a brief stay in Oxford in 1931 because he had been so inspired by the writings of John Ruskin on workers ’ education, just as the college founders had been.

Includes an account of Shantidas ’ s stay with Gandhi.

Rajiv Gandhi was the first PM to stay at Race Course Road in 1984, while the present resident is Manmohan Singh since 2004.

They witnessed the struggles of Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru for independence during their stay in India, and inspired them to do the same for their motherland Malaya when they returned.

During Nataraja Guru's European stay he had met Gandhi and Tagore.

While the entire nation was celebrating the Independence Day, Gandhi decided to stay in Calcutta in an attempt to stem the communal carnage.

Kaba Gandhi No Delo ( literally " Kaba Gandhi's house "), Rajkot is the place where the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi stayed during his stay in Rajkot in the early years of his life.

Gandhi pushed through a resolution at the Calcutta Congress in December 1928 calling on the British government to grant India dominion status or face a new campaign of non-cooperation with complete independence for the country as its goal.

Anticipating revenge of Hindus against Muslims in Calcutta after the transfer of power, Suhrawardy sought help from Gandhi.

:" The Prince of Wales was due in Calcutta on 24 December, and any more violent disorder there had to be prevented at all costs ..... During the next two months over 30, 000 people were arrested in India as a whole, and of the top leadership of the Non-Cooperation Movement, only Gandhi remained free ….

The IPF held its second conference in Calcutta on November 4 – 6, 1984, in the midst of the chaos following the assassination of Indira Gandhi.

Banaras Hindu University ( 1994 ), Andhra University ( 1995 ), S. V. University, Tirupati ( 1996 ), Sri Krishna Devaraya University, Ananthpur ( 1998 ), Anna University, Chennai ( 1998 ), Roorkee University, Roorkee ( 1999 ), IIT, Bombay ( 2000 ), Chatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur ( 2000 ), Gurunanak Dev University, Amritsar ( 2001 ), University of Calcutta, Calcutta ( 2002 ), Indira Gandhi National Open University ( IGNOU ), New Delhi ( 2003 ), Panjab University, Chandigarh ( 2003 ), Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum ( 2004 ), Alagappa University, Karaikudi ( 2006 ), Mysore University, Mysore ( 2007 ); SRM University, Chennai ( 2008 )

* 5 June-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( later called " Mahatma Gandhi ") embarks from Durban for Calcutta en route to Bombay

Gandhi realized that India was 900, 000 villages, not the cities of Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta and Madras.

degree from the University of Calcutta in 1931, here again he organized conferences to draw the attention towards issues of discrimination, and also participated in the anti-untouchability movement started by Mahatma Gandhi.