* 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi ends a 241 mile march to Dandi in the Salt Satyagraha.

Mahatma Gandhi said of the British peace offer: " It is not fear of losing more lives that has compelled a reluctant offer from England but it is the shame of any further imposition of agony upon a people that loves liberty above everything else ".

Each civilization is led by a famous historical figure, such as Mahatma Gandhi for Indians.

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.

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.

There was no greater prince of peace and apostle of non-violence than Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, whom we have lost, but yet, he said it was better to take the sword than to surrender, fail or run away.

Mohandas Karamchand GandhiGandhism is the collection of inspirations, principles, beliefs and philosophy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( known as Mahatma Gandhi ), who was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian Independence Movement.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( pronounced: ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948 ), commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India.

Mahatma Gandhi spinning yarn, in late 1920

Raj Ghat and other memorials | Raj Ghat, Delhi is a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi that marks the spot of his cremation.

* 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.

* 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.

On his first trip to England in 1931 he traveled on the Rajputana, the same ship that was carrying Mahatma Gandhi, who was sailing to the second Round Table Conference in London.

* 1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.

* Henry David Thoreau: Influential American thinker on such diverse later political positions and topics such as pacifism, anarchism, environmentalism and civil disobedience who influenced later important political activists such as Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy.

Satyagraha ( ) is a philosophy and practice of nonviolent resistance developed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( also known as " Mahatma " Gandhi ).

The International Gandhi Peace Prize, named after Mahatma Gandhi, is awarded annually by the Government of India.

Certain national holidays such as Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti ( birthdate of Mahatma Gandhi ) are meant to be dry days nationally.

Rajiv Gandhi was not related to Mahatma Gandhi, although they share the same surname.

It was criticised by Mahatma Gandhi as a " report of a drain inspector sent out with the one purpose of opening and examining the drains of the country to be reported upon ".

On July 28, 1942, Allama Mashriqi sent the following telegram to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Mahatma Gandhi, C. Rajagopalachari, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Prasad and Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya.

Indira's father Jawaharlal Nehru opposed her marriage to Gandhi and approached Mahatma Gandhi to dissuade the young couple, but to no avail.

Ilaiyaraaja and Kamal Haasan carted recording equipment to her home and had her sing " Vaishnav Janato ", a favourite of Mahatma Gandhi, for the film.

In her youth she stayed in the ashram of Mahatma Gandhi.

Star TV gave her a primetime slot for Nikki Tonight which quickly proved to be Asia ’ s most widely viewed and controversial talk show, although it was subsequently cancelled by Star TV after a guest, gay rights activist Ashok Row Kavi, made a derogatory remark about Mahatma Gandhi.

She met Mahatma Gandhi, first in London when, in 1931, he spent some time at Kingsley Hall, a community center with educational, social and recreational purposes, run by the her and her sister Doris, and then in India when she went with him in Bihar on his anti-untouchability tour during 1934.

* Screenwriter, The Making of the Mahatma, a Shyam Benegal film which was based on her book The Apprenticeship of a Mahatma ; the film was co-produced by India and South Africa.

Savitribai Phule was a social reformer who along with her husband, Mahatma Jotiba Phule played an important role in improving women's rights in India during the British Rule.

Annie Besant, head of the European Section and co-head of the Esoteric Section with Judge, made public statements supporting the genuineness of those letters ; but she later accused Judge of falsifying them, asserting that her suspicions of him were confirmed by the visitation of a Mahatma, presumably Master Morya, to whom she was linked.

* Dodla Rukminamma who lost her pilot son in the world war II, had organised a meeting and collected donations for the freedom struggle handed over the same to Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi when he visited this place

Ross Hedvíček observes in the article already mentioned: " India had to wait for another thirty years to have her democracy ... Mahatma Gandhi was as yet in South Africa.

She treasured the note from the Mahatma and it adorned her drawing room.

Colleges in Meenachil Taluk come under Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.

During extensive travels in Europe, America and Asia Minor Kellner claimed to have come into contact with three Adepts ( a Sufi, Soliman ben Aifa, and two Hindu Tantrics, Bhima Sena Pratapa of Lahore and Sri Mahatma Agamya Paramahamsa ), and an organization called the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light.

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.

But, owing to the intervention of several top-ranking political leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi, the death penalty was not carried out.

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.

Amid widespread speculation that a violent conflict will soon break out, some of the people who arrived on the Mayflower II realize that the Chironians do not intend to harm the majority of the ship's occupants, but rather use a form of satyagraha ( Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent noncompliance ) to integrate the peaceful travelers into their society and isolate the small number who present a real threat.

" Boyle further stated that " Native Hawaiians operate in accordance with the Aloha spirit, which is similar to Mahatma Gandhi's Satyagraha force, and I take the position that if Gandhi can throw the mighty British Empire out of India with Satyagraha, Native Hawaiians can throw the mighty American empire out of Hawaii with Aloha.

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

* July 23 – Mahatma Gandhi the spiritual leader from India writes a personal letter to Adolf Hitler addressing him " My friend ", requesting to prevent any possible war.

* September 11 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.

* December 24 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian spiritual non-violence leader writes his second letter to Adolf Hitler addressing him " My friend ", requesting him to stop the war Germany had begun.

* March 2 – Mahatma Gandhi informs the British viceroy of India that civil disobedience will begin 9 days later.

* 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.

* April 5 – In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.

* May 4 or May 5 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested again.

* December 28 – Mahatma Gandhi leaves India enroute to Britain for freedom negotiations.

Nathuram Vinayak Godse ( 19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949 ), was the sole assassin of Mahatma Gandhi — the pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism in British ruled India and apostle of non-violence — shooting Gandhi in the chest three times at point blank range on 30 January 1948 in New Delhi.

Mahadev Desai ( January 1, 1892 – August 15, 1942 ) was an Indian independence activist and nationalist writer ; he was most famously known for being the personal secretary of Mahatma Gandhi.

Mahatma Jyotirao Phule established Satyashodhak Samaj, Vitthal Ramji Shinde ( 1873 – 1944 ), fought for the eradication of untouchability through his Depressed Classes Mission.

Many books on social reforms were written by Baba Padamji ( Yamuna Paryatana, 1857 ), Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, Lokhitwadi, Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade, Hari Narayan Apte ( 1864 – 1919 ) etc.

* Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( 1869 – 1948 ), better known as Mahatma Gandhi

* 1915 – Arrival of Mahatma Gandhi.

* 1921 – Gujarat Vidyapeeth, founded by Mahatma Gandhi, Sessions of the Indian National Congress.

* 1922 – Arrest of Mahatma Gandhi, sentenced to six years jail for treason.

* 1930 – Mahatma Gandhiji's historic ' Dandi March ' and Salt Satyagraha.

To promote the university's expansion, Malviya invited eminent guest speakers such as Mahatma Gandhi, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Prof C. V. Raman, Dr. Prafulla Chandra Roy, Prof Sam Higginbottom, Sir Patrick Geddes, and Besant to deliver a series of what are now called The University Extension Lectures between 5 – 8 February 1916.

* Mahatma Gandhi – Mohandas K. Gandhi