# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mahadev-desai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:05:53.942Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mahadev-desai"
name: "Mahadev Desai"
slug: "mahadev-desai"
description: "Mahadev Haribhai Desai was an Indian independence activist, scholar and writer best remembered as Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary. He has variously been described as \"Gandhi's Boswell, a Plato to Gandhi's Socrates, as well as an Ānanda to Gandhi's Buddha\"."
tagline: "Indian independence activist, writer and Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary (1892–1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mahadev_Desai_1983_stamp_of_India.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1892-01-01"
deathDate: "1942-08-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.46606334841629
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 183
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump