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VERY DIFICULT TO FIND THIS GANDHI NOTE,

INDIA GANDHI 1 RUPEE RASHTREEYA SMARAKH NIDHI

Gandhi Smarak Nidhi

FRONT GANDHI PICTURE,

 HINDI SCRIPT:-

GANDHI RASHTRIYA SMARAK NIDHI

EK RUPIYA

PLEASE NOTE: YOU WILL GET SIMILIAR 1 RUPEE BUT DEFERANCE SERIAL NUMBER WHAT YOU SEE IN THE SCAN,

AND BACK SIGNITURE OF J M KRIPLANI

The Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, also called the National Gandhi Memorial Trust and 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 associated with Mahatma Gandhi's activities during India's freedom movement, and is also a leading producer of literature on Gandhi and Gandhian thought in India.

The initial public fund raising for the Trust was considered to be very successful, and Dr. Martin Luther King wrote that at $130 million it was "perhaps the largest, spontaneous, mass monetary contribution to the memory of a single individual in the history of the world

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.

Size: 115 x 71mm,

Jivatram Kripalani

Acharya (scholar) Jivatram Bhagwandas Kripalani (1888-1982) was an Indian politician, noted particularly for holding the presidency of the Indian National Congress during the transfer of power in 1947.

Kripalani was Gandhian Socialist, environmentalist, mystic and freedom fighter.

He grew close to Gandhi and became in time one of his most ardent disciples. Kripalani was a familiar figure to generations of dissenters, from the Non-Cooperation Movements of the 1920s through till the Emergency of the 1970s.

Early life

Jivatram (also spelled Jiwatram) Bhagwandas Kripalani was born in Hyderabad in Sindh in 1888. Following his education at Fergusson College in Pune, he worked as a schoolteacher before joining the freedom movement in the wake of Gandhi's return from South Africa.

Kripalani was involved in the Non-Cooperation Movement of the early 1920s. He worked in Gandhi's ashrams in Gujarat and Maharashtra on tasks of social reform and education, and later left for Bihar and the United Provinces in northern India to teach and organize new ashrams. He courted arrest on numerous occasions during the Civil Disobedience movements and smaller occasions of organizing protests and publishing seditious material against the British raj.

Congress leader

Kripalani joined the All India Congress Committee, and became its General Secretary in 1928-29.

Kripalani was prominently involved over a decade in top Congress party affairs, and in the organization of the Salt Satyagraha and the Quit India Movement. Kripalani served in the interim government of India (1946-1947) and the Constituent Assembly of India.