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Kasturba Mohandas Gandhi (listen ⓘ, born Kasturba Gokuldas Kapadia; 11 April 1869 – 22 February 1944) was an Indian political activist who was involved in the Indian independence movement during British India.
May 7, 2024 · Kasturba Gandhi (born April 11, 1869, Porbandar, India—died February 22, 1944, Pune) was an Indian political activist who was a leader in the struggle for civil rights and for independence from British rule in India. She was the wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
In this journey of a man who is regarded as the father of the nation, an integral companion was his wife, Kasturba Gandhi. Kasturba Gandhi's name is often lost in the face of Gandhi's leadership but she was his pillar of support, the first individual who was a part of him like none other.
Kasturba Gandhi was also immortal part of India's freedom fight. In association with Mahatma Gandhi, Kasturba Gandhi was a political activist fighting for civil rights and Indian independence from the British.
Kasturba Gandhi, known affectionately as Ba, was married to Mohandas Gandhi in 1882 when she was but thirteen years old. When Gandhi left for London in 1888, she did not accompany him: she was already a mother, since Harilal had been born earlier that year.
Death came to Kasturba on February 22, 1944, while she was yet a detenu in the Aga Khan Palace in Pune (then Poona) sharing imprisonment with her husband, Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi is known all over the world as an apostle of Peace and Nonviolence and volumes of literature in almost all languages is published and followed on a world-wide scale. But very little is known about his wife Kasturba who played an important role of making Gandhi Eternal.
Dec 17, 2022 · Kastur, who was Gandhi’s comrade and companion, was a woman of strength who experimented with the power of truth. She broke taboos by offering satyagraha in South Africa to protest a law that allowed only marriages performed under Christian rites to be registered.
Kasturba Gandhi lived alongside one of the greatest men in history, but she has remained in his shadow—now she emerges. Gandhi himself said she taught him about nonviolence and called her “his precious jewel” of inspiration. The Indian nation, the largest democracy in existence, calls her “Mother,” but who was she, this Accidental ...
Kasturba Gandhi: Accidental Activist tells that untold story of how she became one of the first women activists in modern history, impacting the growing number of women...
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