mahatma ghandi

Mahatma Gandhi

He was an Indian pacifist, politician. Who organized the independence movement against the British Raj for what practiced non-violent civil disobedience. Received from Rabindranath Tagore the honorific name of Mahatma. His moral influence on the development of the talks that prepared India's independence was considerable, but the separation with Pakistan deeply discouraged him. On January 30th, 1948, when Gandhi was on his way to a prayer meeting, he was assassinated at Birla Bhavan (Birla House) in New Delhi, at 78 years of age by Nathuram Godse, a radical hinduist apparently related to ultra-right-wing groups in India, such as the Hahasabha Hindu party, who accused him of weakening the new government with his insistence that the promised money be paid to Pakistan.

Born: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ,2 October 1869.

Died: Nueva Dheli ,30 January 1948 (aged 78), Nueva Dheli

Cause of death:  Assassination.

Nationality: Indian.