History of Kasturba Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi's Wife.

                 

                             KASTURBA GANDHI

                              Mahatma Gandhi's wife

    

 Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi who is famous in India as Ba.  Kasturba Gandhi was born on 11 April 1869 in Porbandar Nagar, Kathiawar.  In this way Kasturba was 6 months older than Gandhiji in Gandhi's age.  Kasturba Gandhi's father 'Gokuldas Makanji' was a businessman of ordinary status. 

 Date and time of birth: 11 April 1869, Porbandar

 Place and date of death: 22 February 1944, Aga Khan Palace, Pune

 Husband: Mahatma Gandhi (viva. 1883–1944)

 Children: Harilal Mohandas Gandhi, Devdas Gandhi, Manilal Gandhi, Ramdas Gandhi

 Grandson or grandson: Aran Manilal Gandhi, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Ella Gandhi, more

 Parents: Vrajkunwarba Kapadia, Gokuldas Kapadia

life (Struggle with Gandhi) 

 

Gandhi Of his wife

  The husband and wife lived together almost till 1888 AD, but after Bapu's stay in England, for the next twelve years, the two were often separated.  Bapu had to travel to Africa shortly after returning from England.  When he came to India in 1896, he took Ba along with him.  Since then, she has been following the footsteps of Bapu.  He made his life as simple as that.  She was always with him in Bapu's religious and civil services.  This is the essence of all his life.  In many of Bapu's fasts, Ba was often with him.  And continued to take care of them.  When Bapu started fasting in Yerwada jail in 1932 on the question of Harijans, Baa was in Sabarmati jail at that time.  At that time she became very restless and got rested only when she was sent to Yerwada Jail.

 The rites of religion were deep-seated in Ba.  She was not ready to corrupt the Manus body by consuming meat and alcohol at any stage.  He refused to drink meat broth even in a state of difficult disease in Africa and persevered for a lifetime.

 In South Africa, a law was passed in 1913 that recognized marriages other than those conducted in accordance with Christianity and those recorded with the Marriage Department official.  In other words, marriages of Hindus, Muslims, Parsis etc. were declared illegal and the status of such married women became more like a mistress than a wife.  Bapu tried hard to get this law canceled.  But when they did not succeed, then they decided to do Satyagraha and called for women to join it.  But he discussed this matter with other women but did not discuss it with Ba.  They did not want Ba to go to the satyagrahis at their behest and then present difficulties in a difficult situation later.  They wanted them to go as they wish and to persevere.  When Ba saw that Bapu did not talk to him about taking part in the Satyagraha, he became very sad and gave a blessing to Bapu.  Then she voluntarily joined the Satyagraha and went to jail with three other women.  The food he got in the jail was inedible, so he decided to make fruit.  But when his request was not heeded, he started fasting.  On the fifth day, officers had to bow down.  But the fruits given were not enough for the whole meal.  So Ba had to stay in jail for three months on half stomach food.  When she got out of jail, her body was left stagnant.

 Except for going to jail in South Africa, he probably did not participate in any public work there, but after coming to India, Bapu shared all the tasks he took, like an experienced soldier.  At the time of Champaran's Satyagraha, Ba also stayed in Tiharwa village and roamed the villages and distributed medicines.  In this work, the white people got a sense of politics.  They set up their hut in Ba's absence.  Children used to study in that hut of Ba.  He did not like to close this chatsala even for a day, so he woke up all night and set up another hut of grass.  Similarly, at the time of Kheda Satyagraha, women wandered around and encouraged them.

                                       With children

 The statement he gave when Bapu was arrested in 1922 and was sentenced to six years, distinguished him as a heroine.  He called upon the people to renounce foreign clothing to protest against Gandhiji's arrest.  Like youths, they roamed the villages of Gujarat to tell Bapu's message.  In the days of the raid of Dandi Cooch and Dharasana in 1930, Bapu continued to fill the absence of Bapu in a way when he went to jail.  She was patient, assisting the people suffering from the atrocities of the police.  He spent most of his time in jail in 1932 and 1933.

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 In 1939, Thakur Saheb of Rajkot agreed to give certain rights to the subjects, but later retracted.  The public decided to do Satyagraha to express their protest against it.  When Ba heard this, he felt that Rajkot was his own house.  It is their duty to participate in the Satyagraha to be held there.  He obtained Bapu's permission for this and as soon as he reached Rajkot, was put under house arrest in the case of civil disobedience.  At first he was kept in a secluded village in Sunsan where the atmosphere was not favorable to him at all.  The public agitated that their health is not good, it is inhuman to keep them away from medical facilities.  As a result, she was kept in a palace, 10–15 miles from Rajkot.  Shortly after Ba's departure, Bapu also decided to participate in Satyagraha and started fasting there.  When Ba got the news of this, he decided to have a meal at one time.  She always used to do this during Bapu's fast.

 Two or three days later, the Rajkot government, forgetting that they could go to meet Bapu, sent them to Bapu.  But when no one came to take them back to the place of detention in the evening, it was found that they had been released from this deception.  Bapu did not tolerate this.  He sent Baa back to jail at one o'clock in the night.  The Rajkot government did not dare to allow them to stay on the road all night.  She was taken back to the palace and thereafter she was released the next day.

 After Bapu Adi was arrested on 9 August 1942, Ba decided to give a speech at the meeting at Shivaji Park (Bombay), where Bapu himself was going to give a speech, but was arrested when he reached the gate of the park.  Two days later, she was sent to the Aga Khan palace in Poona.  Bapu was already arrested and sent there.  She was unwell at that time.  On 15 August, when Mahadev Desai suddenly did Mahaprayana, why did he keep saying Mahadev again and again;  Why not me?  Later, the shrine of Mahadev Desai became like a temple to Shankar-Mahadev for him.  She would regularly go there, praying for samadhi and saluting him.  She also lit a lamp on him.

 His health deteriorated again on the night of his arrest and he did not improve satisfactorily and finally he finished his career on 22 February 1944.  After her death, the nation collected one crore rupees for the welfare of women.

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