Kaliyuga Prahalatha: The Personification of Mahatma Gandhi in the Seditious Literature of the Madras Presidency, 1920 – 1933

Abstract

Mohandas Karam Chand Gandhi, the name became very popular among the Indians at the dawn of twentieth century. Gandhi, who was born to Kaba Gandhi and Putlibai on 2nd October 1869 at Porbandur in Gujarat, completed his law studies in England and accepted an offer from Dada Abdullah & Co., South Africa to practice his legal profession in April 1893, where he stayed for twenty years. In South Africa, he fought relentlessly for racial equality. Between 1906 and 1914, Gandhi organised 'Satyagraha' against the Black Acts” of the Europeans in South Africa.1 The Indian Press reported the meaningful sacrifice of Gandhi to the Indians. In the meantime, Gandhi published his first work entitled Indian Home Rule or Hind Swaraj in Marathi in 1908. The Government of India took stern measures against the book under section 26 of the Indian Post - Office Act of 1898 in 1908.