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W.C. Fields used the pseudonym Mahatma Kane Jeeves when writing the script for The Bank Dick (1940), in a play on both the word "Mahatma" and a phrase an aristocrat might use when addressing a servant, before leaving the house: "My hat, my cane, Jeeves".


Asfandyar Wali Khan

He is the grandson of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, better known as Bacha Khan; Abdul Ghaffar was the founder of the non-violent Pashtun political movement, Khudai Khidmatgar ("Servants of God") in undivided India and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar

He is most well known as the author of an eight-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi, titled Mahatma: Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

He gained international notability for writing the eight-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi, titled Mahatma: Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

Gandhi Global Family medals and awards

The recipients of the Mahatma Gandhi Award are the Indian Air Force and Indian Army for their work of rehabilitation and resettlement of Jammu and Kashmir State after the devastating 2005 Kashmir earthquake and Jain Acharya Samrat Dr Shiv Muni ji Maharaj of Sthanakvasi for promoting universal peace and brotherhood.

Gandhi Memorial International Foundation

In 1988 the Gandhi Memorial International Foundation gave Werner Erhard, Joan Baez, Shirley Temple Black, and David Packard its "Mahatma Gandhi Humanitarian Award".

Garhmukteshwar

Mahatma Gandhi once comes to Garhmukteshwar via train after his successful movement to thanxs Landlord of Jhadina and also financer of Meerut 1942 Quit India Movement.

Godse

Gopal Godse (1919-2005), brother of Nathuram Godse and conspirator in Mahatma Gandhi's assassination

Greg Ritchie

He played a comedy character, a supposed Punjabi Sikh with a full beard and turban called Mahatma Cote on Channel Nine's The Footy Show as well as other sports radio comedy chat segments.

GVK

Grama Vikas Kendra - an educational centre of the Mahatma Gandhi University

Gwalior Engineering College

Gwalior Engineering College popularly known as GEC has been established by Mahatma Dhule Education Society.started in year 2003.

Hari Narke

He is serving as professor and Head of Mahatma Phule Chair, in the University of Pune, India.

Jagannatha Dasa Babaji

Jagannātha Dāsa Bābājī (1776–1894) was an influential leader (guru) in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism, and is respected as a Mahatma or saint by followers of his lineage.

Jyotirao Phule

Minister of Maharashtra Chhagan Bhujbal founder of Mahatma Phule Samata Parishad, an organisation works for social upliftment of dalits and OBCs and M.S.Chandramohan,writer,he is very much inspired by the work done by Phule especially creating social education system.

Keezhur Kunnu

Mahatma Gandhi College, Keezhur Kunnu was founded by Iritty Educational Society and is affiliated to the Kannur University.

Kirti Mandir, Porbandar

The whole credit of constructing this national memorial of Mahatma Gandhi goes to the famous industrialist, Nanjibahi Kalidas Mehta, who not only initiated the idea to build a memorial but also donated the whole money purchase the ancestral house and also to build new complex called Kirti Mandir.

Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramoday University

Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramoday University (MGCGV) is a rural university at Chitrakoot, India.

Mahatma Gandhi District, Houston

The Mahatma Gandhi District is an ethnic enclave in Houston, Texas, United States, named after Mahatma Gandhi, consisting predominantly of Indian and Pakistani restaurants and shops and having a large Indian/Pakistani population.

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital is located in Warangal of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Mahatma Gandhi Road metro station

Mahatma Gandhi Road, commonly referred to by the abbreviation MG Road, is a station on the Purple Line of the Namma Metro in Bangalore, India.

Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kolkata

After the independence of India in 1947 the Harrison Road in Kolkata was renamed Mahatma Gandhi Road (M.G. Road) and the name of the upper part of Chowringhee was changed to Jawaharlal Nehru road.

Manibhai Desai

At the urging of Mahatma Gandhi, when he stayed in the village of Uruli Kanchan near the city of Pune in 1946, the young Manibhai decided to devote his life to uplifting of Uruli.

Moka

Schools in Moka include Le Bocage International School, Mahatama Gandhi Institute, Mahatma Gandhi Secondary School, St. Mary Roman Catholic School, and Ecole du Centre.

Naransamy Roy Naidoo

He was born in 1901 in Pietermaritzburg, he was adopted by the family of Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi and went to India for his education, where he studied under the poet Rabindranath Tagore.

National Gandhi Museum

In 1959, The Gandhi Museum moved for a final time to Rajghat, New Delhi next to the Samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi.

Nationalist Movements in India

The Salt Satyagraha was started by Mahatma Gandhi on 12 March 1930 from Sabarmati Ashram to 5 April until Dandi where he manufactured Salt, broke the Salt Law and started a nationwide Civil disobedience

Rohtas district

The road bridge (Jawahar Setu built by Gammon India in 1963–65) over Sone was the longest (3061 m) in Asia until it was surpassed by the Mahatma Gandhi setu (5475 m) over the river Ganges at Patna.

Sree buddha college of engineering for women

This college is located in Elavumthitta of Pathanamthitta District and is affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University.

Titusji

Mahatma Gandhi's great-grandson Tushar Gandhi and several hundred fellow marchers followed the same route to Dandi.

On March 15, 1925, Mahatma Gandhi visited Titusji’s house in Maramon (Theverthundiyil) on his way to the famous Hindu temple in Aranmula near Chengannur.

Wadgaon Sheri

City centers like Shivajinagar, Deccan Gymkhana, Mahatma Gandhi Road (MG Road), Camp, Hadpsar are all within a radius of nine to ten kilometers.


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