Among the Indian leaders, Gandhi emphatically insisted on maintaining a united India and for a while successfully rallied people to this goal.

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.

Gandhi was called to the bar in June 1891 and then left London for India, where he learned that his mother had died while he was in London and that his family had kept the news from him.

Gandhi focused his attention on Indians while in South Africa and opposed the idea that Indians should be treated at the same level as native Africans while in South Africa.

Gandhi and Ambedkar often clashed because Ambedkar sought to remove the Dalits out of the Hindu community, while Gandhi tried to save Hinduism by exorcising untouchability.

Ambedkar complained that Gandhi moved too slowly, while Hindu traditionalists said Gandhi was a dangerous radical who rejected scripture.

After long deliberations, Gandhi declared that India could not be party to a war ostensibly being fought for democratic freedom while that freedom was denied to India itself.

Concerning the partition of India to create Pakistan, while the Indian National Congress and Gandhi called for the British to quit India, the Muslim League passed a resolution for them to divide and quit, in 1943.

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

* 1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

* November 6 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

Mahatma Gandhi first read Walden in 1906 while working as a civil rights activist in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Green Philosophy draws heavily on both Gandhi and the Quaker traditions, which advocate measures by which the escalation of violence can be avoided, while not cooperating with those who commit violence.

Gandhi had refused to support Britain on the grounds of his moral opposition to war, while Subhas Chandra Bose was in militant opposition to the British.

Benn's contact with leading politicians of the day dates back to his earliest years ; he met Ramsay MacDonald when he was five, David Lloyd George when he was 12 and Mahatma Gandhi in 1931, while his father was Secretary of State for India.

The BJP was a strong critic of the Congress government, and while it opposed the Sikh militancy that was rising in the state of Punjab, it also blamed Indira Gandhi for divisive and corrupt politics that fostered the militancy at national expense.

The main early influences were the thought of Henry David Thoreau and Leo Tolstoy while later the ideas of Mohandas Gandhi gained importance.

Rachel Corrie was a US citizen allegedly killed by a bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) while involved in direct action ( based on the non-violent principles of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi ) to prevent demolition of the home of local Palestinian pharmacist Samir Nasrallah.

Mahatma Gandhi and Ambedkar often clashed because Ambedkar sought to remove the Dalits out of the Hindu community, while Gandhi tried to save Hinduism by exorcising untouchability.

Ambedkar complained that Gandhi moved too slowly, while Hindu traditionalists said Gandhi was a dangerous radical who rejected scripture.

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.

The Congress Party Official leadership led by Kamraj chose to support Neelam Sanjiva Reddy for the position, but he was able to prevail anyway being the chosen candidate for Indira Gandhi who controlled the government, serving until 1974.

* Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, also known as Hyderabad International Airport, located at Shamshabad ( a suburb of Hyderabad, India ), the current airport serving Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

On the morning of March 24, Jayaprakash Narayan led the newly-elected Janata MPs to Raj Ghat, where the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi were laid, and administered a pledge to continue Gandhi's work and preserve honesty in serving the nation.

Under Olivier there was no departure from the Conservative policy on India, although Mahatma Gandhi was released from prison after serving only two years out of a six-year sentence.

After serving as secretary to the United Nations Association from 1952 to 1957, he became Chairman in 1984, as well as Chairman of the Gandhi Foundation, which he held until 1995.

Gopalkrishna Gandhi ( Bengali: গ ো প া লক ৃ ষ ্ ণ গ া ন ্ ধ ী Gopalkrishno Gandhi ; born April 22, 1945 ) was the Governor of West Bengal serving from 2004 to 2009.

Indira Gandhi, who served as Prime Minister of India for an aggregate period of fifteen years is the world's longest serving woman Prime Minister.

She was the world's third longest-serving female Prime Minister, behind Indira Gandhi of India and Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and the world's longest continuously serving female Prime Minister ever.

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport serving Hyderabad and located 195 km from Srisailam is the nearest international airport.

But Gandhi feared that in the name of moulding the state into a suitable instrument of serving people, the state would abrogate the rights of the citizens and arrogate to itself the role of grand protector and demand abject acquiescence from them.

On 24 May 1971, a Parsi ex-Indian Army Captain and serving intelligence officer, Rustom Sohrab Nagarwala, was able to take out 6 million Rupees from the State Bank of India's Parliament Street branch by mimicking the voice of the then serving Indian prime minister, Indira Gandhi to chief cashier Ved Prakash Malhotra.

This is the house where Mohandas K Gandhi's father, Karamchand Uttanchand Gandhi ( Kaba Gandhi ) resided at Rajkot, serving as Diwan ( Prime Minister ) to the King.

In contrast to the Zulu War of 1906 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, when he recruited volunteers for the Ambulance Corps, this time Gandhi attempted to recruit combatants.

Gandhi in the uniform of a warrant officer of the Indian Ambulance Corps.

Gandhi was a stretcher-bearer at the battle, in the Indian Ambulance Corps he had organised, and was decorated.

Nehru nominated Gandhi to succeed him as Congress President during his absence in jail, but Gandhi declined, and Nehru then nominated his father as his successor.

The issue was resolved during the premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri, who under great pressure from Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, was made to give assurances that English would continue to be used as the official language as long the non-Hindi speaking states wanted.

They became widely recognized and accepted throughout the region during the premiership of Indira Gandhi and the 3-year rule of the Janata Party ( 1977 – 1980 ).

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.

In April 1918, during the latter part of World War I, the Viceroy invited Gandhi to a War Conference in Delhi.

During this period, Gandhi claimed to be a " highly orthodox Hindu " and in January 1921 during a speech at a temple in Vadtal, he spoke of the relevance of non-cooperation to Hindu Dharma, " At this holy place, I declare, if you want to protect your ' Hindu Dharma ', non-cooperation is first as well as the last lesson you must learn up.

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.

Image: MKGandhi. jpg | Mohandas Gandhi during the 1940s

* January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop the communal violence during the Partition of India.

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* March 12 – Mahatma Gandhi sets off on a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest the British monopoly on salt ; more will join them during the Salt March that ends on April 5.

In particular, it is known that Gandhi would often quote Shelley's Masque of Anarchy to vast audiences during the campaign for a free India.

India also withdrew its military from the land of Bangladesh when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman requested Indira Gandhi to do so during latter's visit to Dhaka in 1972.

Godse approached Gandhi on January 30, 1948 during the evening prayer.

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.

The party was in the forefront during the agitation against the emergency ( 1975 – 77 ) imposed by the Indira Gandhi regime and thousands of its leaders and workers were imprisoned across India.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement.

In a similar vein, anticipating a possible attack on India by Japan during World War II, Gandhi recommended satyagraha as a means of national defense ( what is now sometimes called " defence by civil resistance " or " social defence "):

However Jayakar considers his message in meetings with Indira Gandhi as a possible influence in the lifting of certain emergency measures Mrs. Gandhi had imposed during periods of political turmoil.

Laxmi was the daughter of one of his early followers, a wealthy Jain who had been a key supporter of the National Congress Party during the struggle for Indian independence, with close ties to Gandhi, Nehru and Morarji Desai.

In 1949, a group called Filhos de Gandhi began playing afoxé during carnaval parades in Salvador ; their name translates as Sons of Gandhi, associating black Brazilian activism with Mahatma Gandhi's Indian independence movement.