Remembering Mahatma Gandhi on his 75th Death Anniversary: Check These 15 Vintage Pictures of Father of the Nation

Mahatma Gandhi with Lord Mountbatten and Lady Mountbatten at the Rashtrapati Bhavan (then Viceroy's House), New Delhi, March 1947.

Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Shimla in 1945. 

Mahatma Gandhi with Rabindranath Tagore at Shantiniketan in February 1940.

MK Gandhi with Charlie Chaplin during his visit to London in 1931.

Gandhiji getting a haircut from Abbasbhai Khushalbhai Varteji.

After coming back from South Africa, he made independence the only goal of his life.

While living in South Africa, Gandhiji fought to end the atrocities against Indians and the apartheid policy.

Gandhiji passed middle school in Porbandar and high school in Rajkot. Gandhiji studied law at University College London and went to England to become a barrister. He did further practice in Mumbai.

Gandhiji was born on Friday, India got independence on Friday and Gandhiji was also murdered on Friday only.

Gandhiji helped to establish a total of three football clubs in Durban, Pretoria and Johannesburg in South Africa.

Gandhiji's civil rights movement was spread across 4 continents and 12 countries.

During his stay in South Africa, Gandhiji helped people as a health worker in the 1899 Anglo-Boer War. It was here that he saw the horrors of war and started on the path of non-violence.

In 1930, he was the Time Magazine Man of the Year. He was a great writer and the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi have 50,000 pages.

His birthday (2nd October) is commemorated worldwide as International Day of Nonviolence.

Gandhiji was born on October 2, 1869. He was the primary leader of India’s independence movement.