Or maybe it was Mohandas Gandhi, India's Independence leader who established non-violence as a global political force?

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Mohandas Gandhi, who championed Indian nationalism and advocated nonviolence to achieve his goal, comes to mind as well.

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Some people in the land of pacifist Mohandas Gandhi are discovering that there is a point to violence: profit.

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He gained enormous popularity for a series of Hindi films in which he played a reformed thug who follows the teachings of nonviolence advocate and Indian independence hero Mohandas Gandhi.

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At the station a plaque commemorates the day in 1893 when the founder of modern day India, Mohandas Gandhi, was thrown off a train for travelling in the 'white-only' first class compartment.

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