Devdas Gandhi

Devdas Gandhi
Devdas Gandhi
	Devdas Gandhi in the 1920s
Born	Devdas Mohandas Gandhi; 22 May 1900; South African Republic
Died	3 August 1957 (aged 57); Bombay, Bombay State, India
Nationality	African/Indian
Spouse(s)	Lakshmi Gandhi[1][2]
Children	Rajmohan Gandhi; Ramchandra Gandhi; Gopalkrishna Gandhi; Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee;
Parent(s)	Mahatma Gandhi; Kasturba Gandhi;
Relatives	C. Rajagopalachari (father-in-law); C. R. Narasimhan (brother-in-law);

Devdas Mohandas Gandhi (22 May 1900 – 3 August 1957) was the fourth and youngest son of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was born in South Africa and returned to India with his parents as a old 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. 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.[3]

Family

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 years, both Devdas's father and Rajaji asked the couple to wait for five years without seeing each other. After five years had passed, they were married with their fathers' permissions in 1933.[4]

Devdas and Lakshmi had four children, Rajmohan Gandhi, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Ramchandra Gandhi[5] and Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee (born 24 April 1934, New Delhi).

References

Hopley, Antony R. H. (2004). "Chakravarti Rajagopalachari". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31579.
Varma et al., p 52
"When Gandhi turned half-naked fakir in Tamil Nadu". Outlook India. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
Tunzelmann, Alex Von (2008). Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire. London, United Kingdom: Simon & Schuster. p. 78. ISBN 9781416522256.
Ramachandra Guha (15 August 2009). "The Rise and Fall of the Bilingual Intellectual" (PDF). Economic and Political Weekly. Economic and Political Weekly. XLIV (33).

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[oxforddnb-1] Hopley, Antony R. H. (2004). "Chakravarti Rajagopalachari". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31579.

[ourleadersp52-2] Varma et al., p 52

[3] "When Gandhi turned half-naked fakir in Tamil Nadu". Outlook India. Retrieved 11 March 2020.

[4] Tunzelmann, Alex Von (2008). Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire. London, United Kingdom: Simon & Schuster. p. 78. ISBN 9781416522256.

[5] Ramachandra Guha (15 August 2009). "The Rise and Fall of the Bilingual Intellectual" (PDF). Economic and Political Weekly. Economic and Political Weekly. XLIV (33).