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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...

Timeline of Events

1930

3.12.1930

Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the ''Dandi March'', to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.

1942

8.9.1942

Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.

1949

11.15.1949

Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.