Mahatma Gandhi arrived in South Africa at a young age of 24 years as the legal counsel of Indian traders based in the city of Pretoria. He spent more than two decades in South Africa,
where he developed the concept of Satyagraha while fighting against the gross injustice, discrimination and racism prevailing there.
After staying in South Africa for over 21 years, Gandhiji returned to India on January 9, 1915, with his wife Kasturba.
Gandhiji returned to India with a formidable reputation to lead the Indian masses struggling for freedom from colonial domination through civil disobedience and non-violence, which proved to be highly effective moral weapon in the
He had been in London the previous year to treat a severe bout of pleurisy, a lung inflammation. His doctors advised him to return to India to escape the English winter. After that, India became his permanent home.
DOP Issued A set of two Commemorative Postage stamps on
100 YEARS OF MAHATMA GANDHI’S RETURN was released by the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi ji on 8th January, 2015 at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Issued Date: 08.01.2015
Denomination : 500 & 2500
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