Devdas Gandhi

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Devdas Gandhi (1900 - 1957) was the fourth and youngest son of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was born in South Africa and returned to India with his parents as a young man. He became active in his father's movement, spending many terms in jail. He also became a prominent journalist, serving as editor of Hindustan Times. Devdas fell in love with Lakshmi, the daughter of his father's associate in the Indian independence struggle Rajaji C. Rajagopalachari. Due to Lakshmi's age at that time; she was only fifteen,whereas Devdas was twenty eight years old - both Devdas' father and Rajaji asked the couple to wait for five years without seeing each other. After five years had passed, they were married with their fathers' permissions in 1933. Devdas and Lakshmi had four children, Rajmohan Gandhi, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Ramchandra Gandhi and Tara (Bhattacharya).

Mohandas Gandhi acted as midwife at the delivery of his youngest son, Devadas Gandhi.

Alone of all the sons, Devadas stayed near his father, sometimes being granted the privilege of serving as his secretary.