Mahatma Gandhi

American  

noun

1. Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand.

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Gandhi, Mahatma Cultural  

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.”

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Example Sentences

Leaders like Mahatma Gandhi in India and later Nelson Mandela in South Africa deployed disciplined nonviolence, chosen not because violence was unthinkable but because repression was predictable.

From The Wall Street Journal

The two leaders will attend a traditional kite festival and visit the Sabarmati Ashram, the spiritual retreat where Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the Indian independence struggle, lived for many years.

From Barron's

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From BBC

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

From BBC