Key People
Aga Khan III - (1877-1957) Hereditary ruler of the Muslim Ismaili sect
and general Muslim leader. Born into great power and wealth, the
Aga Khan supported the British in India, and founded the All-India
Muslim League in 1906.
Winston Churchill - Prime Minister of England during World War II, and
an obdurate foe of Indian independence
Karamchand Gandhi - Gandhi's father, and a local politician. When Gandhi's
family sent him to England after Karamchand's death, it was with
the hope that he would follow in his father's footsteps.
Nathuram Vinayuk Godse - A militant Hindu nationalist, and Gandhi's assassin
G.K. Gokhale - A
great Indian politician at the turn of the century, who befriended
Gandhi
Muhammed Ali Jinnah - Head of the Muslim League, and founder of Pakistan.
He successfully demanded partition of India into Muslim and Hindu
countries, an idea to which Gandhi was fundamentally opposed.
Kasturbai - Gandhi's wife. They were married at the age of thirteen.
Lord Mountbatten - The last Viceroy of India, he presided over the partition
of the subcontinent.
Jawaharlal Nehru - An Indian nationalist leader and friend to Gandhi,
he became the first Prime Minister of India.
Motilal Nehru - A leader in the Indian National Congress and Gandhi's
ally, he was the father of Jawaharlal Nehru.
Putlibai - Gandhi's mother. She died while he was in England.
Raychandra - A
Jain friend of Gandhi's, with whom he corresponded on matters of
religion in the 1890s
Jan Smuts - The
Afrikaner President of the Transvaal, and Gandhi's opponent in his
struggle against discrimination
Leo Tolstoy - The
Russian author whose works on pacifism had a profound effect on
Gandhi
