Lady Edwina Mountbatten visits Mahatma Gandhi during his hunger strike, following Indian Partition 1947. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 – 1948), Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. At 5:17 pm on 30 January 1948,

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