Putlibai Karamchand Gandhi (1844 — 12 June 1891) was the mother of Indian independence leader

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2October 186930January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalism, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethics, political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful Indian ...

. She came from a village called Dantrana of the then-Junagadh State. She was the 4th, and youngest, wife of the former Rajkot Dewan Karamchand Gandhi. She was twenty-two years younger than Karamchand who she had married after his first two wives had died early in childbirth and the third was rendered childless. She bore four children to Karamchand Gandhi, Mohandas was her youngest son, who she affectionately called Monia. She was a very religious woman, and practiced Hinduism by whom Mahatma Gandhi was schooled about his religion.

wrote extensively about his mother and her conditionsGuha 2015, p. 32 for him leaving India for England to pursue his education to become a barrister in his autobiography ''

The Story of My Experiments with Truth ''The Story of My Experiments with Truth'' (, , ) is the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1921. It was written in weekly installments and published in his journal ''Navjivan'' from 1925 to 1929 ...

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