Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley has launched the electronic version of the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG). It documents the Father of Nation’s life from 1884 till his demise on January 30, 1948. The minister also announced that the Hindi version of CWMG would be digitised soon. The 100 volumes of Mahatma Gandhi’s complete works are contained in two DVDs.
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi took about 38 years in the making (1956-1994). They are a series of 100 volumes, running into over 55,000 pages, intricately connected across the series, as an integrated whole. It took 38 years for Prof. K. Swaminathan to compile it.
This content will be free to be viewed on internet at Gandhi Heritage Portal. Master copy is also to be preserved in National Archives so that Gandhi’s legacy is not lost.
- Mahatma Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize 5 times
- M. K. Gandhi was responsible for the Civil Rights movement in 4 continents and 12 countries
- Great Britain, the country against whom he fought for independence, released a stamp honouring him, 21 years after his death
- Most relics of Gandhiji including the clothes he wore when he was shot are still preserved in Gandhi Museum, Madurai.
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