A movement made by many

People & Places

Gandhi's story belongs within a larger network of allies, opponents, movements and landscapes.

Important people

Partner in family life and resistance for more than sixty years.

Political mentor who urged Gandhi to travel India before leading it.

Poet, friend and thoughtful critic; their debates joined affection with intellectual independence.

Congress leader and independent India's first prime minister; close ally despite differences on economics.

Organiser of Kheda and Bardoli who became a central Congress leader.

Leader of Dalit emancipation whose major disputes with Gandhi concerned caste and political representation.

Congress president and nationalist who rejected Gandhi's strategy of non-violence as the only path.

Leader of the Muslim League; repeated negotiations with Gandhi failed to prevent Partition.

The 'Frontier Gandhi', whose Khudai Khidmatgar movement practised Muslim non-violence.

Secretary, translator and diarist; died during detention at Aga Khan Palace in 1942.

Birthplace and childhood landscape in Kathiawar, Gujarat.

Law studies, 1888–91, and the Second Round Table Conference in 1931.

Railway station associated with the 1893 racial discrimination incident.

South African communities built around shared labour and simple living.

Home and movement headquarters from 1917 until the Salt March in 1930.

Site of his first major Indian satyagraha, supporting indigo cultivators in 1917.

Coastal village where Gandhi broke the colonial salt law on 6 April 1930.

Pune prison associated with several detentions and the 1932 Poona Pact fast.

Detention site from 1942; Kasturba and Mahadev Desai died there.

The place of his assassination and his cremation memorial in New Delhi.