The National Gandhi Memorial Trust (Hindi: गाँधी स्मारक निधि) also called 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[1][2] associated with Mahatma Gandhi's activities during India's freedom movement, and is also a leading producer of literature on Gandhi and Gandhian thought[3] in India.
The initial 1949 public fund raising for the Trust was considered to be very successful, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote that the $130 million raised (equivalent to $1.66 billion in 2023) was "perhaps the largest, spontaneous, mass monetary contribution to the memory of a single individual in the history of the world."[4]
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- ^ "No takers for the Mahatma's memories". Deccan Herald. 19 April 2004. Retrieved 25 February 2008. [dead link]
- ^ Amaresh Datta; et al. (1988). Encyclopaedia of Indian literature, Volume 2. Sahitya Akademi.
- ^ King Jr., Martin Luther (July 1959). "My Trip to the Land of Gandhi". Ebony. (from) The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University. Retrieved 7 September 2020.