Rajmohan Gandhi
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Rajmohan Gandhi (1960)
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August 7, 1935 New Delhi |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Biographer, journalist |
| Political party | Aam Aadmi Party |
| Awards | International Humanitarian Award (human rights) |
| Website | http://www.rajmohangandhi.com/ |
Rajmohan Gandhi (born August 7, 1935) is a biographer and a research professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US. He is a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari. He is also a scholar in residence at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.
His father was Devdas Gandhi, son of Mahatma Gandhi, Father of the Nation of India, was the Managing Editor of the Daily Hindustan Times. He attended St. Stephen's College, New Delhi, India. Gandhi's mother's Lakshmi's father was C. Rajagopalachari, second Governor General of India after Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was one of the foremost associates of Mahatma Gandhi.
Associated from 1956 with Initiatives of Change (formerly known as Moral Re-Armament), Rajmohan Gandhi has been engaged for half a century in efforts for trust-building, reconciliation and democracy and in battles against corruption and inequalities.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, he played a leading role in establishing Asia Plateau, the 68-acre (280,000 m2) conference centre of Initiatives of Change in Panchgani, in the mountains of western India. Asia Plateau has been recognized in the Indian subcontinent for its ecological contribution. During the 1975-77 Emergency in India, he was active for democratic rights personally and through his weekly journal Himmat, published in Bombay from 1964 to 1981.
His latest book, A Tale of Two Revolts: India 1857 & the American Civil War (New Delhi: Penguin India, December 2009), studies two 19th-century wars occurring in opposite parts of the world at almost the same time. His previous book, a biography of his grandfather Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas: A True Story of a Man, His People and an Empire, received the prestigious Biennial Award from the Indian History Congress in 2007. It has since been published in several countries.
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