Devdas Gandhi

Devdas Gandhi
Born	22 May 1900 South Africa
Died	3 August 1957 (aged 57)
Cause of death	liver disease
Nationality	Indian
Spouse(s)	Lakshmi[1][2]
Children	Rajmohan Gandhi Gopalkrishna Gandhi Ramchandra Gandhi Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee
Parent(s)	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Kasturba Gandhi
Relatives	C. Rajagopalachari (father-in-law) C. R. Narasimhan (brother-in-law)

Devdas Gandhi (22 May 1900 – 3 August 1957) was the fourth and youngest son of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was born in South Africa and returned to India with his parents as a young man. He became active in his father's movement, spending many terms in jail. He also became a prominent journalist, serving as editor of Hindustan Times.

Devdas fell in love with Lakshmi, the daughter of C. Rajagopalachari, Devdas's father's associate in the Indian independence struggle. Due to Lakshmi's age at that time – she was only fifteen, whereas Devdas was twenty eight years – both Devdas's father and Rajaji asked the couple to wait for five years without seeing each other. After five years had passed, they were married with their fathers' permissions in 1933.^[3] Devdas and Lakshmi had four children, Rajmohan Gandhi, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Ramchandra Gandhi^[4] and Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee (born 24 April 1934, New Delhi).

References

1. Hopley, Antony R. H. "Chakravarti Rajagopalachari". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
2. Varma et al., p 52
3. Tunzelmann, Alex Von (2008). Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire. London, United Kingdom: Simon & Schuster. p. 78. ISBN 9781416522256.
4. Ramachandra Guha (15 August 2009). "The Rise and Fall of the Bilingual Intellectual" (PDF). Economic and Political Weekly. Economic and Political Weekly. XLIV (33).