Manilal gandhi biography

Son entity Mahatma Gandhi

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Manilal Mohandas Gandhi (28 October 1892 – 5 April 1956)^[1][2] was say publicly second limitation of Mahatma Gandhi very last Kasturba Solon.

Biography

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Arun Manilal Gandhi

Indian-American activist (1934–2023)

Arun Manilal Gandhi (14 April 1934 – 2 May 2023) was a South African-born Indian-American author, socio-political activist and son of Manilal Gandhi, thus a grandson of nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi. In 2017, he published The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons From My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi (New York: Gallery Books/Jeter Publishing 2017).

Gandhi criticized the Indian government in an article he wrote after they subsidized a 1982 film based on his grandfather's life with $25 million. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1987 where he studied at the University of Mississippi. They later moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where they founded a nonviolence institute hosted by the Christian Brothers University.

Early life

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Arun Manilal Gandhi was born on 14 April 1934, in Durban, to Manilal Gandhi and Sushila Mashruwala. His father was an editor and his mother was a publisher for the Indian Opinion. Arun had seen his grandfather Mahatma Gandhi once briefly at age 5 and didn't see him again until 1946 when he lived with Mahatma Gandhi at the Sevagramashram in India. Arun returned to the Union of South Africa in 1947, just weeks before his grandfather was assassinated.^[1]

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Manilal Gandhi

Manilal Gandhi was born  on 28 October 1892 in Rajkot, India, the second son of Kasturba and Mohandas Gandhi. He had three brothers, with whom he first came to South Africa in early 1897, when Gandhi's family joined him in Durban.As his father did not believe in formal education, Manilal's schooling took place at home. For his entire youth he did not spend a single day at a formal school. Gandhi regarded places like Phoenix Settlement (founded in 1904) and Tolstoy Farm (founded in 1910) as important training centres and Manilal was regarded as one of the first experimental students. Here the focus was on manual labour, character building and some formal subjects. From an early age Manilal learnt to work in the printing press at Phoenix,His father, a newly qualified lawyer accepted a year-long contract with an indian-owned firm in South Africa.After his father decided to stay longer in South Africa,the family joined him there in 1897.Unlike his father,who tended to look down on africans,Manilal identified with all non-whites who were struggling to improve their lives and secure their rights to land and full citizenship.

In 1910 Manilal, then just seventeen years old, joined the satyagraha struggle and between 1910 and 1913 he served four p