Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer and anti-colonial nationalist who led India's independence campaign from British rule through nonviolent resistance. His autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, is a memoir of his life, and he also exchanged letters with the poet Rabindranath Tagore, collected in The Mahatma and the Poet. Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 by a Hindu nationalist.
