Mahadev Desai
Indian independence activist, writer and Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary (1892-1942) · Activists · Died at 50
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".
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Lived 1892 to 1942 · aged 50
