The 60th anniversary of Gandhi's death
Janury 30 2008 The Indian independence leader's great-granddaughter spreads his ashes in the Arabian Sea six decades after his assassination
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January 1 1930: Gandhi leads the Salt March in protest at the government monopoly on salt production
Photograph: Central Press/Getty
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September 22 1931, Canning Town, London: An admiring crowd gathers to witness the arrival of Gandhi as he calls on Charlie Chaplin
Photograph: London Express/Getty
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March 25 1933: Gandhi fasts in protest against British rule after his release from prison in Poona
Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty
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1946, Bengal: Gandhi poses during his tour of Bengal province
Photograph: Getty
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February 8 1948, New Delhi: A huge crowd awaits the arrival Gandhi's funeral procession
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
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February 1948: A crowd watches Gandhi's funeral pyre
Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty
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Janury 26 2008, Mumbai: People pay tribute to 'Asthi Kalash' - the ashes of Gandhi - on display at Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya
Photograph: EPA
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January 29 2008, Amritsar: A statue of Gandhi is silhouetted against the early morning sky
Photograph: Raminder Pal Singh/EPA
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January 29 2008, Kolkata: A man walks past a wall painting of Gandhi
Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA
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January 30 2007, Kolkata: An artist draws a portrait of Gandhi
Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA
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January 30 2007, Mumbai: The great-granddaughter of Gandhi pays tribute, with family members, at the urn containing some recently-found ashes
Photograph: Sajjad Hussein/AFP
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January 30 2008, New Delhi: People pay floral tribute at the memorial to Gandhi
Photograph: Mustafa Quraishi/AP
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January 30 2007, Mumbai, India: Nilamben Parikh, Gandhi's great-granddaughter, spreads the ashes in the Arabian Sea
Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP
