Sunday, February 22, 2015

22nd February 1944 Kasturba Gandhi

Kasturba Gandhi

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Mohandas K. and Kasturba Gandhi at Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum,Gandhi Smriti (Birla House), Tees January Marg, New Delhi.
Kasturba Mohandas Gandhi About this sound listen (help·info) (born Kastur Kapadia; 11 April 1869 – 22 February 1944) was the wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. In association with her husband, Kasturba Gandhi was a political activist fighting for civil rights and Indian independence from the British.

Early life and background[edit]

Born to Gokuladas and Vrajkunwerba Kapadia of Porbandar, little is known of her early life.[1] Kasturba was married to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in an arranged marriage in 1883.[2] While Gandhi was still in high school, he was married, at the age of thirteen, to her, who was also of the same age. For a boy of that age marriage meant only a round of feasts, new clothes to wear and a strange and docile companion to play with. But he soon felt the impact of sexuality which he has described for us with admirable candour. The infinite tenderness and respect which were so marked a characteristic of his attitude in later life to Indian women may have owed something to his personal experience of "the cruel custom of child marriage", as he called it. [3]
When Gandhi left to study in London in 1888, she remained in India to raise their newborn son Harilal Gandhi. She had three more sons: Manilal Gandhi, Ramdas Gandhi, and Devdas Gandhi.

Political career[edit]

The famous poet Rabindranath Tagore withMahatma Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi atSantiniketan, West Bengal in 1940
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 toSouth 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.

Health and death[edit]

Kasturba Gandhi with Mohandas Gandhi in the 1930s
Kasturba Gandhi and her husbandMohandas Gandhi (1902)
Kasturba Gandhi memorial stone (on the right) with the memorial stone ofMahadev Desai in Aga Khan Palace,Pune where she died
Kasturba suffered from chronic bronchitis due to complications at birth. Her bronchitis was complicated by pneumonia.[citation needed]
In January 1944, Kasturba suffered two heart attacks after which she was confined to her bed much of the time. Even there she found no respite from pain. Spells of breathlessness interfered with her sleep at night. Yearning for familiar ministrations, Kasturba asked to see an Ayurvedic doctor. After several delays (which Gandhi felt were unconscionable), the government allowed a specialist in traditional Indian medicine to treat her and prescribe treatments. At first she responded—recovering enough by the second week in February to sit on the verandah in a wheel chair for a short periods, and chat-then came a relapse.
To those who tried to bolster her sagging morale saying "You will get better soon," Kasturba would respond, "No, my time is up". Even though she had a simple illness, the doctors were insistent that she be given the life saving medicine, though Gandhi refused. It was Gandhi, after learning that the penicillin had to be administered by injection every four to six hours, who finally persuaded his youngest son to give up the idea.[citation needed]

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References[edit]

  1. Jump up^ Gandhi, Arun and Sunanda (1998). The Forgotten Woman. Huntsville, AR: Zark Mountain Publishers. p. 314. ISBN 1-886940-02-9.
  2. Jump up^ "Biography of Kasturba Gandhi, Indian Freedom Fighter". India Video. Retrieved10 February 2013.
  3. Jump up^ http://www.mkgandhi.org/bio5000/birth.htm. Retrieved 22 January 2014. Missing or empty|title= (help)

Aga Khan Palace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Kasturba Gandhi and her husband Mohandas Gandhi (1902) ... the right) with the memorial stone of Mahadev Desai in Aga Khan Palace, Pune where she died.

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    २४ फेब्रु, २०१३ - Aga Khan Palace, Pune – From Gandhi's prison to his memorial ... ofBritish oppression on Indians when the palace was used as a prison to ... Kasturba Gandhi passed away during her imprisonment at the Aga Khan Palace.

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    Died on. 30 January 1948 AD. place of death. New Delhi, Dominion of India ... His father Karamchand Gandhi was the Diwan of Porbandar state of British India. .... arrested on 9 August 1942, and Gandhi was held in Aga Khan Palace for 2 years. During that period his wife Kasturba Gandhi died after 18 months of prison on ...

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    १ ऑग, २०११ - Now the Aga Khan Palace is also known as 'Gandhi National Memorial' ... Gandhi's wife Kasturba died after 18 months of imprisonment on February 22, ... the British Raj did not want him to die in prison and enrage the nation.

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    ७ सप्टें, २०१३ - Aga Khan Palace is yet another historical site in Maharashtra that holds a ... It is the place where Kasturba Gandhi and Mahadev Desai died. ... of Gandhi and his wife Kasturba towards the trail end of the British rule in India.

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    Tushar A. Gandhi - 2007 - ‎Statesmen
    His last imprisonment, at Aga Khan Palace, had been traumatic. He had lost two of his closest companions, his wife Kasturba, and Mahadev Desai, his ... had been stocked by his British jailors for his funeral, in case he died while in prison.

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    Agakhan Palace On Nagar Road, this Palace is also known as Kasturba Gandhi ... It was here itself where Kasturba Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi's long time aide Mahadeobhai Desai passed away. ... Khan, served as quarters for imprisonment ofGandhi and his wife Kasturba towards the tail end of the British rule in India.

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    १५ ऑग, २०१४ - Mahadevbhai died on August 15, 1942 in Aga Khan palace, Pune, where he along with Gandhiji, Kasturba, Sushila Nayar and Miraben were kept under detention following the 'Quit India' ultimatum to the British. ... of his untimely death at the age of 50 while under imprisonment in Aga Khan Palace.

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