Ramdas Mohandas Gandhi & Gandhi

Ramdas Mohandas Gandhi (2 January 1897 – 14 April 1969) was the third son of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Ramdas Mohandas Gandhi was born in South Africa. He outlived his parents and all of his brothers.

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Ramdas Mohandas Gandhi and his wife Nirmala had three children; Sumitra Gandhi, Kanu Gandhi and Usha Gandhi. Ramdas Mohandas Gandhi was active in his father's Indian independence movement.

Ramdas Mohandas Gandhi had no taste for asceticism, yet participated in the gruelling civil protests of the 1930s. Numerous jailings had serious effects on his health.

Raised in South Africa, he never adjusted to the idealistic poverty imposed by his father. At his father's funeral, Ramdas Gandhi was the one who had lit the fire to start the cremation, as Mahatma had wished for.

Ramdas Mohandas Gandhi was joined by his younger brother Devdas Gandhi at the funeral. Ramdas Mohandas Gandhi died in 1969, aged 72.

The funeral pyre of Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1948. Ramdas Gandhi lights the funeral pyre of his father, Indian political leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, as crowds look on / men on a horseback ride through crowds/pyre burns, with black smoke billowing;

the crowd surges toward it / soldiers in crowd/group of Hindus walk on the road; Gandhi, wearing a loincloth, runs as he approaches from behind, then slows to a walk with the group as it moves past camera / Hindus, mostly male, walk on sidewalks / from Greatest Headlines of the Century series.