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Mahatma Gandhi
महात्मा गान्धिः sa महात्मा गांधी hi மோகன்தாசு கரம்சந்த் காந்தி ta
Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
- Child of Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi and Putlibai Karamchand Gandhi
- Married to Kasturba Gandhi
- Dated 2 October 1869 CE – 30 January 1948 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Affiliation
As a third party recorded it, often for one period of a life.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Family
The family of Mahatma Gandhi
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 12
Family 12
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (father) Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi Father of Mahatma Gandhi
- child of (mother) Putlibai Karamchand Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi's mother
- parent of (child) Devdas Gandhi Indian activist (1900–1957)
- parent of (child) Harilal Gandhi son of Mahatma Gandhi (1888-1948)
- parent of (child) Manilal gandhi Gandhi family member (1892-1956)
- parent of (child) Manilal Gandhi Indian activist
- sibling of Karsandas Gandhi brother of Mahatma Gandhi
- sibling of Laxmidas Karamchand Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi's brother
- sibling of Muliben Gandhi half-sister of Mahatma Gandhi
- sibling of Pankunvarben Gandhi half-sister of Mahatma Gandhi
- sibling of Raliatbehn Gandhi
- married to Kasturba Gandhi wife of Mahatma Gandhi, an Indian leader of British era (1869-1944)
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Studied under 1
Mahatma Gandhi Indian independence activist (1869–1948) Taught 1
Connections
How Mahatma Gandhi connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Succession in office 1
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Documented influence 12
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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was influenced by G. K. Chesterton English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936) -
was influenced by Henry David Thoreau American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862) - was influenced by Henry Stephens Salt
- was influenced by John Ruskin
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was influenced by Leo Tolstoy Russian author (1828–1910) - was influenced by Narmadashankar Dave
- was influenced by Shrimad Rajchandra
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was influenced by The Buddha Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE) - was influenced by Thiruvalluvar
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Text 1
What this means
A work, its editions and its witnesses are distinct; their dates are not interchangeable.
Does not imply that the work is the only account · that the work is contemporary with what it describes
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
27 statements on this record
- 13 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 14 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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