The government has paid $1.1 million to buy a collection of letters, papers and photographs relating to Mahatma Gandhi, preventing their sale at a planned auction in London.

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A huge archive of letters, papers and photographs that shed new light on Mahatma Gandhi and his time in South Africa will be auctioned in London next month and is expected to fetch 500,000-700,000 pou

Mahatma Gandhi's eternal companion - the charkha - has touched new levels of popularity among his followers as the sale of the hand spinning wheel has tripled in the last year from the Sabarmati Ashra

Mahatma Gandhi’s round steel-rimmed spectacles were sold for a record £39,780 at an auction Tuesday by specialist Mullock’s in Ludlow, Shropshire. They were expected to fetch £10,000-£15,000.

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A pinch of sand soaked with the blood of Mahatma Gandhi following his assassination in 1948, some of his hand-written post cards and a pair of spectacles would be put to auction in London, which have

A pinch of soil and blood-stained blades of grass from the place where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 sold for 10,000 pounds at an auction here on Tuesday.

The auction also saw many other Ga

The Sri Lankan government has ordered an investigation into an incident in which several statues, including that of Mahatma Gandhi, were vandalised.

"It has been brought to the notice of the ministry

A query posted by a 10-year-old girl under the Right to Information Act (RTI) regarding father of nation status to Mahatma Gandhi has raised a piquant situation before the government.

In February th

Mahatma Gandhi's descendants have expressed regret over the forthcoming auction of a 'clump of soil with drops of the Mahatma's blood collected from the site of his assassination' by the British aucti

Unidentified miscreants damaged the statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Dying Ering, architect of modern Arunachal and of some local deities at the gate of a school at Pasighat, district headquarters town of E