Rare Recording of… (Hindi)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 to 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, thinker, anti-colonial activist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (from Sanskrit, meaning great-souled, or venerable), first applied to him in South Africa in 1914, is used worldwide. The following is a June 4th 1947 speech Gandhi gave, in Hindi, after a meeting with British Viceroy Louis Mountbatten.