As the communal landscape worsened, the political situation was in utter disarray. Mahatma Gandhi found that his former proteges and political wards had little time or use for his advice. He found himself increasingly isolated despite the crowd

Gandhi – The Final Years, Episode 1: Of love, loss and the shattering of a dream

Jan 29th, 2023 1h

Mahatma Gandhi’s last years were the most tumultuous of his life. They marked his greatest triumphs, his greatest losses and the crumbling of his dream. India achieved Independence in 1947, but at the cost of Partition and enormous suffering.

Gandhi – The Final Years, Episode 3: Coming full circle in Bihar

Jan 29th, 2023 36m 3s

It was in Bihar that Mahatma Gandhi had made his first mark, politically speaking, after returning from South Africa in 2015. It was where the Champaran Satyagraha gave him an unbreakable grassroots connection with the poorest Indians. In 1946

Gandhi – The Final Years, Episode 2: Death and resurrection in Noakhali

Jan 29th, 2023 44m 36s

As Jinnah declared Direct Action Day, India feared a tsunami of violence. Mahatma Gandhi struggled to hold together the unwinding threads of unity that he had so painstakingly woven. At the concluding session of the Muslim League Council, Jinna

Gandhi – The Final Years, Episode 5: All India needed was a miracle

Jan 29th, 2023 33m 24s

After Bengal, Bihar and Punjab, it was Delhi’s time to burn. Independence had been achieved, but the streets were deserted. Riots had erupted and corpses lined many streets. As the refugees poured into the city, their anger at having lost every

Gandhi – The Final Years, Episode 6: ‘A satyagrahi knows no failure’

Jan 29th, 2023 1h 20m

On January 30, 1948, Nathuram Godse elbowed his way through the crowd, joined his hands as if in supplication and then fired three bullets from a Beretta pistol. Gandhi collapsed in a pool of blood that seeped into the earth. He began chanting

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Gandhi: The Final Years

Jan 24th, 2023 1m 4s

On Mahatma Gandhi’s death anniversary, All Indians Matter launches a six-part series that takes you on a journey through the last years of his life. Those years were a saga by themselves, in many ways the most dramatic of his extraordinary jour

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