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Gandhi family
Gandhi family
	Mohandas K. Gandhi
Current region	Indian
Place of origin	Gujarat, India
Members	K. U. Gandhi (father); Mohandas Gandhi; Kasturba Gandhi (wife); Harilal Gandhi (son); Manilal Gandhi (son); Ramdas Gandhi (son); Devdas Gandhi (son)
Connected members	Rajmohan Gandhi (grandson); Gopalkrishna Gandhi (grandson); Ramchandra Gandhi (grandson); Arun Manilal Gandhi (grandson); Sunanda Gandhi; Tushar Gandhi (great-grandson); Shanti Gandhi(great-grandson)
Connected families	C. Rajagopalachari
Distinctions	Father of the Nation (Mahatma Gandhi)
Traditions	Hindu
Estate(s)	Gandhi Smriti

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The Gandhi family is the family of Mohandas Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948). Gandhi was the distinguished leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Mahatma : is also called the Father of the Nation or "Bapu" as the prime minister called him at his funeral; a title given to him by Subhas Chandra Bose on 6 July 1944 during his address on the Singapore Radio. On 28 April 1947, Sarojini Naidu too referred Gandhi with the title Father of the Nation.^[1] Gandhi is also referred to as Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for "father", in India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhi ji. An anonymous journalist from Jetpur town in Saurashtra he has also been referd to (mostly by British officials) as Gae-ndy or Ga-ndhi as in the a makes an "ah" sound, in an anonymous letter referred Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as Mahatma (Sanskrit: "high-souled", "venerable"),^[2] for the first time while he was still in South Africa.^[3] Gandhi's family consists of him, his wife and his five sons(He had another son who died within the few days after birth).