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Mahatma Gandhi

1869 - 1948

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (from Sanskrit, meaning great-souled, or venerable), first applied to him in South Africa in 1914, is now used throughout the world. Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, Gandhi trained in the law at the Inner Temple in London and was called to the bar at the age of 22. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mahatma Gandhi is the most popular social activist (up from 3rd in 2019), the most popular biography from India and the most popular Indian Social Activist.

Mahatma Gandhi is most famous for being the leader of the Indian independence movement and for his philosophy of nonviolent resistance.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mahatma Gandhi ranks 1 out of 840. After him are Che Guevara, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Luxemburg, Jan Hus, Henry Dunant, Helen Keller, and Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Mahatma Gandhi ranks 1. After him are Henri Matisse, Grigori Rasputin, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, André Gide, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Maud of Wales, Neville Chamberlain, Gustaf Dalén, Frederick Trump, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Fritz Pregl. Among people deceased in 1948, Mahatma Gandhi ranks 1. After him are Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Edgar de Wahl, Sergei Eisenstein, D. W. Griffith, Hideki Tojo, Mileva Marić, Edvard Beneš, Franz Lehár, Osamu Dazai, Edith Roosevelt, and Walther von Brauchitsch.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mahatma Gandhi ranks 1 out of 1,861. After him are Indira Gandhi (1917), Narendra Modi (1950), Mumtaz Mahal (1593), George Orwell (1903), Ashoka (-304), Rajneesh (1931), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Swami Vivekananda (1863), Kālidāsa (400), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), and Ramakrishna (1836).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Mahatma Gandhi ranks 1. After him are Syed Ahmad Khan (1817), Gerald Durrell (1925), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), Kasturba Gandhi (1869), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904), Gangubai Kothewali (1939), Vinoba Bhave (1895), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Mangal Pandey (1827), and Kittur Chennamma (1778).

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