Putlibai Gandhi
Born1844 (1844)[1]
Datrana, Junagadh State, Company India[2]
Died12 June 1891(1891-06-12) (aged 46–47)
NationalityBritish Indian
Known forBeing the mother of Mahatma Gandhi
Spouse
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(m. 1857)​
Children

Putlibai Karamchand Gandhi (1844 — 12 June 1891) was the mother of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi and the youngest wife of the former Rajkot Dewan Karamchand Gandhi. She was a very religious woman, and practiced Hinduism[3] by whom Mahatma Gandhi was schooled about his religion. She came from a village called Dantrana of the then-Junagadh State. She was twenty-two years younger[4] than Karamchand who she had married after his first two wives had died early and the third was rendered childless. Mohandas was her youngest son, who she affectionately called Monia. Mahatma Gandhi wrote extensively about his mother and her conditions[5][6] for him leaving India for England to pursue his education to become a barrister in his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth.

References

  1. ↑ "Putlibai Gandhi". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  2. ↑ Guha, Ramachandra (15 October 2014). Gandhi before India. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 978-93-5118-322-8.
  3. ↑ "Putlibai | GANDHIJI". www.mkgandhi.org. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  4. ↑ Mohan, G. Ram (25 August 2015). "The meaning of celebrating Putlibai Day". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  5. ↑ Guha 2015, p. 32
  6. ↑ Rajmohan, Gandhi (2006). Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire. pp. 20–21. ISBN 978-0-520-25570-8.
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