150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi

Official commemorative coin set issued by the India Government Mint (SPMCIL). The life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is a story of heroic effort to establish the values at Truth and Non-voilence in human life. In pursuing this objective, Gandhiji became a Mahatma from a mere ‘Monya’. He became a messenger for the people of the world surrounded by fire of violence in the twentieth century. He also became ‘The Father of the Nation’. He saved India and Britain from mutual hate and revenge by resorting to the experiment of Truth and Non-violence in India’s struggle for freedom. This created an atmosphere which made it possible for other countries of Asia and Africa to free themselves without bloodshed from the hold of the European countries which had subdued them in the nineteenth century. In South Africa it was the Railway Ticket Collector who paved the way for the birth of a Satyagrahi and in India it was a poor peasant from Champaran, Rajkumar Shukla, who provided him a platform to test the power of Satyagraha on the Indian soil. His campaign in favour of the non-co-operation movement brought about another change which identified his outward appearance with that of the humblest and lowliest of the land and he stuck to the loin cloth till he departed with the name of God on his lips. Mahatma Gandhi’s contribution to human development is far too great and varied to have been forgotten or to be overlooked. The world today recognizes him as a far more compelling social innovator than humanity ever realized. Pure Silver – .999 purity, 40gms