Gandhi Smarak Nidhi

Gandhi Smarak Nidhi

The Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, also called the National Gandhi Memorial Trust and the Gandhi Qaumi Yaadgar Fund, is a memorial trust run by the Central Government of India established to commemorate the life of Mahatma Gandhi. It funds the maintenance of various places [cite web|title=In Shiv shahi, Aga Khan Palace has no place?|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19990716/ige16145.html| year=1999|accessdate=2008-02-25] [cite web|title=No takers for the Mahatma’s memories|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/Archives/apr192004/metro6.asp| year=2004|accessdate=2008-02-25] associated with Mahatma Gandhi's activities during India's freedom movement, and is also a leading producer of literature on Gandhi and Gandhian thought [cite book|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian literature, Volume 2|author=Amaresh Datta, et al|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|year=1988] in India.

The initial public fund raising for the Trust was considered to be very successful, and Dr. Martin Luther King wrote that at $130 million it was "perhaps the largest, spontaneous, mass monetary contribution to the memory of a single individual in the history of the world. [cite book|title=I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World|author=Martin Luther King|publisher=HarperCollins|year=1992] "

ee also

* Mani Bhavan

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