Mohandas Gandhi

Biography

Key People

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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