Gandhi Jayanti 2021: Mahatma Gandhi like you haven't seen before
As India marks Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s 152nd birth anniversary, and we relive his tales of courage and bravery during the country’s freedom struggle, here are some rare images of the Father of the Nation
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Mahatma Gandhi, accompanied by young followers, walks on a beach near Bombay, on 12 January 12 1938 during his convalescence. AFP
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A seven-year-old Mahatma Gandhi in Porbandar. Gandhi was born on 2 October, 1869 in Gujarat’s Porbandar city. Image Courtesy: https://gandhi.gov.in/
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Though Mahatma Gandhi always travelled in third class, his arrival at any station was a source of rejoicing and huge crowds always collected to welcome him. Image Courtesy: Photodivision
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Mahatma Gandhi spinning the charkha at the Sabarmati Ashram in 1925. Gandhi initiated the Swadeshi movement by taking up the charkha and encouraging Indians to spin their own cloth. Image Courtesy: https://gandhi.gov.in/
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Mahatma Gandhi shares a lighter moment with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, president of the Indian National Congress, on March 2, 1938 in Haripura, during a political meeting. AFP
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Mahatma Gandhi poses with Pashtun political and spiritual leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan on 17 May 1938 in Peshawar, during a political meeting. The two men were known for their non-violent opposition to British Rule. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was known as Badshah Khan or Frontier Gandhi. AFP
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Gandhiji breaking the salt law by picking up a lump of natural salt at Dandi in Gujarat’s Navsari. Gandhi and his followers undertook the 24-day Dandi march from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 and broke the regressive salt laws imposed by the British. Image Courtesy: https://gandhi.gov.in/
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Gandhiji plants a tree outside Kingsley Hall, the day before his departure from London in 1931. The Father of the Nation had visited London to attend the Second Round Table Conference on the Indian constitution, where he was the sole representative of the Indian National Congress. Image Courtesy: https://gandhi.gov.in/
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Mahatma Gandhi sits with Jawaharlal Nehru, during a Congress party meeting in Bombay on 9 August 1942. AFP
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The funeral pyre of Mahatma Gandhi. Almost one million people took part in the Mahatma Gandhi’s funeral procession to reach the cremation grounds near New Delhi and mourn their leader, slain by an assassin’s bullets as he walked to prayer at Birla House. AFP
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