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Mohandas Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader, 1906. Mohondas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma - Great Soul) (1869-1948) left India in 1893 and spent the next 21 years in South Africa opposing legislation discriminating against Indians. During the Zulu Rebellion in 1906 he was a Red Cross stretcher bearer. He was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic in New Delhi on 30 January 1848.