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Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948) when he was practising as an attorney in South Africa. He is seated in front of a window bearing his name, on the left is H S L Polak then his clerk. The woman is Miss Schlesin, a Russian. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948) when he was practising as an attorney in South Africa. He is seated in front of a window bearing his name, on the left is H S L Polak then his clerk. The woman is Miss Schlesin, a Russian.   (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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circa 1906: Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948) as a young lawyer. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

circa 1906:  Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948) as a young lawyer.  (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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12th September 1931: Indian Congress leader Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948) walking along the quayside at Boulogne to the boat for England, where he is to attend the Round Table Conference as the representative of the Indian Nationals. (Photo by N. Miller/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

12th September 1931:  Indian Congress leader Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948) walking along the quayside at Boulogne to the boat for England, where he is to attend the Round Table Conference as the representative of the Indian Nationals.  (Photo by N. Miller/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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22nd September 1931: An admiring East End crowd gathers to witness the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi), in Canning Town, East London, as he calls upon Charlie Chaplin. Gandhi is in England in his capacity as leader of the Indian National Congress attending the London Round Table Conference on Indian constitutional reform. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images)

22nd September 1931:  An admiring East End crowd gathers to witness the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi), in Canning Town, East London, as he calls upon Charlie Chaplin. Gandhi is in England in his capacity as leader of the Indian National Congress attending the London Round Table Conference on Indian constitutional reform.  (Photo by London Express/Getty Images)