A Rare Recording of Mahatma Gandhi After Meeting with British Viceroy Mountbatten

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 to January 30, 1948) was an Indian lawyer, thinker, anti-colonial activist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (from Sanskrit, meaning great-souled, or venerable), first applied to him in South Africa in 1914, is used worldwide. The following is a June 4, 1947 speech Gandhi gave, in Hindi, after a meeting with British Viceroy Louis Mountbatten.Public Domain (P)2026 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.