9th May 1938 Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) with a group of congressmen at the frontier between India and Afghanistan.
A procession, two miles in length as it passed through Sandhurst Road, Bombay, India, when the Congress working Committee organized a demonstration protesting the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi.
And then there is this historic 1938 picture of Gandhi in a convivial mood with freedom hero and radical nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose. In the background, Kasturba Gandhi is drawing her sari, and looking into the distance.
Being the only person who was allowed to take Gandhi's photographs at any time, Kanu Gandhi was shooting every day.
Bombay, Mahatma Gandhi Leaving His Harijan Hut To Meet Secretary Of State And The Cabinet Of Members Of The Royal Mission In India On April 8Th 1946
Breakfast meeting between Mahatma Gandhi and Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten 1947
Gandhi and his wife Kasturba are seen here at a wedding of a Christian man and an untouchable woman in Sevagram ashram, 1940.
Gandhi visits Lahore 1947.
Here Gandhi is being massaged by a relative and his elder sister Raliatbehn during a three-day fast in Gujarat's Rajkot city in March 1939.
Here, Gandhi is seen in front of his office hut at Sevagram ashram in 1940. A pillow covers his head as protection against the severe heat.
Here's an anxious-looking Mahatma Gandhi making a telephone call from his office in Sevagram village in the western state of Maharashtra in 1938.
Here's Gandhi and Nobel Prize-winning poet Rabindranath Tagore in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, in February 1940, a study of two great men in meditation.
Hindu nationalist and spiritual leader. Gandhi with a patient at a leper colony in Ashram, India, 1939. (
Kanu Gandhi travelled far and wide with the leader.
Mahatma Gandhi (R) sits with Jawaharlal Nehru, during a Congress Party meeting in Bombay, 09 August 1942.
Mahatma Gandhi and Lieutenant Colonel De M.S. Fraser (left), political aide to the Secretary of State for India, are shown after a British cabinet meeting, April 3, following discussions in reference to Indian independence.
Mahatma Gandhi and the governor of Bengal Sir Frederick Burrows and the Lieutenant General Bucher on November 5, 1946 in Kolkata, India
Mahatma Gandhi having his feet washed, by his wife Kasturba, at Sevagram a village in the state of Maharashtra, India. Sevagram was the place of Mohandas Gandhi's ashram and his residence from 1936 to his death in 1948
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. touring India during the partition riots following Independence 1947. Gandhiwas the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. touring India during the partition riots following Independence 1947
Moulana Azad and Acharya Kirpalini (from left to right) at a meeting of the All India Committee in Bombay - July 15, 1946
Sanjeev Saith says the picture of a dying Kasturba Gandhi lying on a bed at the Aga Khan Palace in Pune in 1944 a few months before her death counts among his favourites. A broken shaft of light is streaming in through a window behind her.
There's a series of pictures of Gandhi collecting donations for a fund for the untouchables during a three-month long train journey that took him to Bengal, Assam and southern India in 1945-46.
This is a picture of Gandhi, and his wife Kasturba, in Abottabad in November, 1938.
This is possibly my most favourite image from the book. Here Gandhi is standing on a weighing scale at the Birla House in Bombay (what is now Mumbai) in 1945.
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