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If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

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Mahatma Gandhi
Age: 78 †
Born: 1869
Born: October 2
Died: 1948
Died: January 30
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Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
M. K. Gandhi
Mohandas K Gandhi
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
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