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'''Devdas Mohandas Gandhi''' (22 May 1900 – 3 August 1957) was the fourth and youngest son of [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and [[Kasturba Gandhi]]. He was born in the [[Colony of Natal]] and came to India with his parents as a grown man. He became active in his father's movement, spending many terms in jail. He also became a prominent journalist, serving as editor of [[Hindustan Times]]. He was also the first ''pracharak'' of the [[Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha]] (DBHPS), established by Mohandas Gandhi in Tamil Nadu in 1918. The purpose of the Sabha was to propagate Hindi in southern India''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/when-gandhi-turned-halfnaked-fakir-in-tamil-nadu/1631231|title=When Gandhi turned half-naked fakir in Tamil Nadu|website=Outlook India|access-date=2020-03-11}}</ref>''<br />
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== Family ==<br />
Devdas fell in love with Lakshmi, the daughter of [[C. Rajagopalachari]], Devdas's father's associate in the [[Indian independence struggle]]. Due to Lakshmi's age at that time&nbsp;– she was only 15 and Devdas was 28&nbsp;– both Devdas's father and Rajaji asked the couple to wait for five years without seeing each other. After five years had passed, they were married with their fathers' permissions in 1933.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire|last=Tunzelmann|first=Alex Von|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=2008|isbn=9781416522256|location=London, United Kingdom|pages=78}}</ref><br />
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Devdas and Lakshmi had four children including [[Rajmohan Gandhi]], [[Gopalkrishna Gandhi]] and [[Ramchandra Gandhi]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ramachandra Guha|author-link=Ramachandra Guha|date=15 August 2009|title=The Rise and Fall of the Bilingual Intellectual|journal=[[Economic and Political Weekly]]|publisher=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=XLIV|issue=33|url=https://casi.sas.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/iit/The%20Rise%20and%20Fall%20of%20the%20Bilingual%20Intellectual%20-%20AV.pdf}}</ref><br />
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== Legacy ==<br />
When [[Mahatma Gandhi]] started seeking help for establishment of [[Jamia Millia Islamia]], Devdas also came forward on the call of Gandhi. He started teaching Hindi there and also cotton spinning.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-23|title=Jamia Millia and Mahatma Gandhi: A Walk into History Lanes|url=https://www.inclusiveindia.net/education/jamia-millia-and-mahatma-gandhi-a-walk-into-history-lanes/|access-date=2021-09-12|website=inclusiveindia.net|language=en-US|quote=Devdas is teaching cotton spinning etc at Jamia Millia|archive-date=12 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912100013/https://www.inclusiveindia.net/education/jamia-millia-and-mahatma-gandhi-a-walk-into-history-lanes/|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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