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Definition of Mahatma Gandhi

1. Noun. Political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948).

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Literary usage of Mahatma Gandhi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"When Mahatma Gandhi came here four years ago, I attended a meeting in this very hall. ... AT EXACTLY five Mahatma Gandhi arrived. Everybody stood up. ..."

2. In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization by Mario Blaser, Harvey A. Feit, Glenn McRae (2004)
"While for Zapata, land and liberty (Tierra e Libertad) was the key to peasant survival and dignity, for Mahatma Gandhi Hind Swaraj, or a free India, ..."

3. Report on India and Persia of the Deputation by Robert E. Speer, Russell Carter (1922)
""Mahatma Gandhi is no ordinary man. He is the greatest man in the world today. He is to India and the world a prophet—the Prophet of Freedom. ..."

4. Zigzagging in the Orient, 1921-22 by Fred L. Gray (1922)
"... at us from the bank the familiar battle cry of the Non-cooperators— "Mahatma Gandhi—ki-jai" ("Long life and victory to the great soul, Gandhi."). ..."

5. King's Complete History of the World War ...: 1914-1918. Europe's War with by William C. King (1922)
"The accepted leaders of the Indian self-rule movement in 1921 were: Mahatma Gandhi, a high-caste Hindu, who was educated for the bar in London, ..."

6. Capital (1888)
"Naturally, Mahatma Gandhi was not satisfied with a scheme which did not emphasise the cottage industries in general and the spinning wheel in particular. ..."

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