Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Irving, TX
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N 32° 52.892 W 096° 58.148
14S E 689985 N 3639981
The honorific Mahatma (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.
Waymark Code: WM138NF
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/12/2020
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The statue depicts a small bald headed man with a large mustache, and wearing round glasses. He has sandals on his feet and a robe draped across his shoulders. He is wearing the Indian loincloth and his legs are bare. His left hand is down at his side and he is holding a book. He right hand holds a cane staff.
Wikipedia
"Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. His contributions to the formation of Modern India also gave him the title – "Father of the Nation".
Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, western India, Gandhi trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, and was called to the bar at age 22 in June 1891. After two uncertain years in India, where he was unable to start a successful law practice, he moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit. He went on to stay for 21 years. It was in South Africa that Gandhi raised a family, and first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights. In 1915, aged 45, he returned to India. He set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and above all for achieving Swaraj or self-rule."