The Real Mahatma
Photograph
The Real Mahatma
Gandhi - in Fact and Film
1948
Gelatin silver print, printed April 1962
Image: 9 3/8 × 6 9/16 in. (23.8 × 16.7 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0225
Inscriptions Typed on applied label on verso, BC: (Gandhi) 4/62 10) THE REAL MAHATMA, weak from
fasting, leans on the \ shoulders of Abha and Manu as they walk through the streets of \ New Delhi surrounded by excited Hindus. It had been feared \ this long fast would end in death for the 78-year old spiri- \ tual leader. Instead a fanatics bullet ended his life. But \ the shock of the loss hastened peace in India. \ Credit: Cartier-Bresson © 1948 MAGNUM PHOTOS
fasting, leans on the \ shoulders of Abha and Manu as they walk through the streets of \ New Delhi surrounded by excited Hindus. It had been feared \ this long fast would end in death for the 78-year old spiri- \ tual leader. Instead a fanatics bullet ended his life. But \ the shock of the loss hastened peace in India. \ Credit: Cartier-Bresson © 1948 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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