Devdas Gandhi

Activist

Birthday May 22, 1900

Birth Sign Gemini

Birthplace Colony of Natal

DEATH DATE 1957-8-3, Bombay, Bombay State, India (57 years old)

Nationality India

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1900

Devdas Mohandas Gandhi (22 May 1900 – 3 August 1957) was the fourth and youngest son of Mahatma Gandhi.

He was born in the Colony of Natal and came to India with his parents as a grown man.

He became active in his father's movement, spending many terms in jail.

He also became a prominent journalist, serving as editor of Hindustan Times.

1918

He was also the first pracharak of the Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha (DBHPS), established by Mohandas Gandhi in Tamil Nadu in 1918.

The purpose of the Sabha was to propagate Hindi in southern India''.

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Devdas fell in love with Lakshmi, the daughter of C. Rajagopalachari, Devdas's father's associate in the Indian independence struggle.

Due to Lakshmi's age at that time – she was only 15 and Devdas was 28 – both Devdas's father and Rajaji asked the couple to wait for five years without seeing each other.

1933

After five years had passed, they were married with their fathers' permissions in 1933.

1934

Devdas and Lakshmi had four children, Rajmohan Gandhi, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Ramchandra Gandhi and Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee (born 24 April 1934, New Delhi).

When Mahatma Gandhi started seeking help for establishment of Jamia Millia Islamia, Devdas also came forward on the call of Gandhi.

He started teaching Hindi there and also cotton spinning.