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Historical Gallery
Twenty-four images across Gandhi's life. Open any source to see the original file, creator information and licence on Wikimedia Commons.
Mohandas Gandhi as a child in Kathiawar.
A formally dressed Gandhi during his South African years.
Gandhi with the Indian Ambulance Corps during the South African War.
Gandhi near the end of his twenty-one years in South Africa.
Portrait from the year the first satyagraha campaign began.
Two friends and independent thinkers in conversation.
Gandhi with Kasturba, his wife and fellow satyagrahi.
Gandhi leads marchers toward Dandi during the Salt Satyagraha.
Gandhi at Dandi on the eve of making illegal salt.
Travelling to London for the Second Round Table Conference.
The famous Elliott & Fry studio portrait.
A second studio portrait from Gandhi's London visit.
Gandhi leaves Presidency Jail in Calcutta.
Letters, articles and notes were essential instruments of Gandhi's public work.
Spinning khadi joined personal discipline to economic self-reliance.
Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru in the year of Quit India.
Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah during negotiations in Bombay.
Gandhi and Nehru during a decisive year of negotiations.
Crowds gather around Gandhi's railway carriage.
The funeral procession after Gandhi's assassination.
Gandhi's ashes are carried through Allahabad before immersion.
The black marble memorial marking his cremation site.
The spot at Gandhi Smriti where he was assassinated.
Gandhi's modest home at Sabarmati Ashram.
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