Kasturba Gandhi
Kasturba Gandhi

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Kasturba Gandhi
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22 February 1964
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15np
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Kasturba Mohandas Gandhi was the wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, marrying him in an arranged marriage. Working closely with her husband, Kasturba Gandhi became a political activist fighting for civil rights and Indian independence from the British. After Gandhi moved to South Africa to practice law, she travelled to South Africa in 1897 to be with her husband. From 1904 to 1914, she was active in the Phoenix Settlement near Durban. During the 1913 protest against working conditions for Indians in South Africa, Kasturba was arrested and sentenced to three months in a hard labour prison. Later, in India, she sometimes took her husband's place when he was under arrest. In 1915, when Gandhi returned to India to support indigo planters, Kasturba accompanied him. She taught hygiene, discipline, health, reading, and writing.

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Born : 11-4-1869    Died : 22-2-1944
Birth Place : Porbandar, Gujarat    Death Place : Poona

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