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[[File:Gandhismaraknidhi.jpg|thumb|250px|Fund-raising receipt for the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi signed by [[Acharya Kriplani]] from 1949. It says "Gandhi Rashtriya Smarak Nidhi" in Hindi on one side, and "Gandhi Qaumi Yaadgar Fund" in Urdu on the obverse.]]<br />
The National Gandhi Memorial Trust ({{lang-hi|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<ref>{{cite web |title=In Shiv shahi, Aga Khan Palace has no place?|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19990716/ige16145.html |year=1999 |accessdate=2008-02-25}}{{dead link |date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=No takers for the Mahatma’s memories |url=http://www.deccanherald.com/Archives/apr192004/metro6.asp |newspaper=[[Deccan Herald]] |date=2004-04-19 |access-date=2008-02-25}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> associated with Mahatma Gandhi's activities during India's freedom movement, and is also a leading producer of literature on Gandhi and Gandhian thought<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian literature, Volume 2|author=Amaresh Datta|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|year=1988|display-authors=etal}}</ref> in India.<br />
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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 ${{Inflation|US|0.130|1949|r=2|fmt=c}} billion in {{Inflation/year|US}}) was "perhaps the largest, spontaneous, mass monetary contribution to the memory of a single individual in the history of the world."<ref>{{cite magazine |title=My Trip to the Land of Gandhi |first=Martin Luther |last=King Jr. |author-link=Martin Luther King Jr. |magazine=[[Ebony (magazine)|Ebony]] |date=July 1959 |url=https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/my-trip-land-gandhi |publisher=(from) The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, [[Stanford University]] |access-date=2020-09-07}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Mani Bhavan]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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