Mahatma Gandhi

noun

1. Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand.

Gandhi, Mahatma

1. A political figure of the twentieth century in India; the leader of India's drive for independence from Britain. Gandhi used methods of passive resistance and nonviolent disobedience, such as boycotts and hunger strikes, to influence British rulers. He was assassinated in 1948, just after India secured its independence. The title mahatma means “great soul.”

Example Sentences

Mahatma Gandhi, then a lawyer in Johannesburg, represented a Rand Club cook in a labor dispute a few years later.

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NAGPUR, India—India’s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a right-wing Hindu group once banned following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by a Hindu nationalist, is stepping out of the shadows and flexing its power.

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As for the glorious history of the Nobel Peace Prize, the fact that Henry Kissinger got one and Mahatma Gandhi did not pretty much sums it up.

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India has demanded "immediate action" against unidentified people who vandalised a statue of independence hero Mahatma Gandhi in London.

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In London, arrests were made near the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament Square, where as many as 20 police vans attended.

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