Gandhi Jayanti : Date, history, significance need to know about Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary

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Published Oct 3, 2023

Mahatma Gandhi, by name of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi), Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. As such, he came to be considered the father of his country. Gandhi ji is internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest (satyagraha) to achieve political and social progress.

In the eyes of millions of his fellow Indians, Gandhi Ji is the Mahatma (“Great Soul”). The unthinking adoration of the huge crowds that gathered to see him all along the route of his tours made them a severe ordeal; he could hardly work during the day or rest at night. “The woes of the Mahatmas,” he wrote, “are known only to the Mahatmas.” His fame spread worldwide during his lifetime and only increased after his death. The name Mahatma Gandhi is now one of the most universally recognized on earth.

Rabindranath Tagore, born Rabindranath Thakur, was a Bengali poet, author, creator, truth-seeker and painter. He reformed Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "intensely penetrating, immaculate and beautiful section" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European as well as the first versifier to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Rendering to some authors, Rabindranath Tagore is said to have used this designation for Gandhi ji on March 6, 1915.
Several argue that he was named Mahatma by the inhabitants of Gurukul Kangri in April 1915, and he, in turn, named the organizer Munshiram a Mahatma. Nevertheless, a paper revering him with the title "Mahatma" on January 21, 1915, in Jetpur, Gujarat, by Nautamlal Bhagvanji Mehta is conserved at the National Gandhi Museum in New Delhi, India. This paper persists the initial notation of the title "Mahatma" being bequeathed upon Gandhi ji.
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