Devdas Gandhi

Ela Gandhi (born 1940) is a South African social worker and politician, a granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi through his son Manilal Gandhi and daughter-in-law Sushila Gandhi. Raised at the Phoenix Settlement near Durban that her grandfather had founded, she was active in the anti-apartheid movement and was later placed under a banning order by the South African government for her activism. Following the end of apartheid, she served as a Member of Parliament for the African National Congress from 1994 to 2004 and has continued work promoting nonviolence and restorative justice through the Gandhi Development Trust. She is the sister of peace activist Arun Gandhi.

Tushar Gandhi (born 1960) is an Indian author and social activist, a great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi through the line of his eldest son, Harilal Gandhi, and Harilal's son, Kantilal Gandhi. He is best known for his book 'Let's Kill Gandhi', a detailed account of the events and conspiracy surrounding his great-grandfather's death, and he has served as president of the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting Gandhian values. He has been an outspoken public commentator on nonviolence, communal harmony and the political uses and misuses of his great-grandfather's legacy in contemporary India.

Arun Gandhi (born 1934) is a peace activist and writer, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi through his father, Manilal Gandhi, and mother, Sushila Gandhi. Raised partly in South Africa during the era of racial discrimination that preceded and continued into apartheid, he later moved to India and worked as a journalist before relocating to the United States. In 1991 he co-founded the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, through which he has written and lectured internationally on nonviolent conflict resolution, drawing on his childhood memories of his grandfather, which he recounted in books including 'The Gift of Anger' and other memoirs. He is the brother of South African politician Ela Gandhi.

Gulab Gandhi, also known as Chanchal, was the wife of Harilal Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's eldest son. Married as part of a joint wedding ceremony with her husband's family in Rajkot, she raised their children largely on her own as Harilal's life was marked by financial instability and long periods of estrangement from the wider Gandhi family. Comparatively little is recorded about her own life outside her marriage, but she is remembered within the family's history as the mother of Kantilal Gandhi and his siblings, connecting Mahatma Gandhi to his descendants through the Harilal branch of the family, including great-grandson Tushar Gandhi.

Kantilal Gandhi was a son of Harilal Gandhi and Gulab (Chanchal) Gandhi, making him a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi through the Harilal branch of the family. Comparatively little is documented about his own life and career, but he is recorded within the family's history as the father of Tushar Gandhi, the author and activist who has written extensively about his great-grandfather's life and, in particular, about the events surrounding Gandhi's death.

Sumitra Kulkarni (nee Gandhi) was a granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi through his third son, Ramdas Gandhi, and daughter-in-law Nirmala Gandhi. She was closely associated with Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, the institution her grandfather founded in 1917 as a base for his campaigns of nonviolent resistance and constructive social work, and she took part in efforts connected to preserving its buildings and legacy for later generations. Through her, the Gandhi family's third-son branch remained connected to one of the movement's most historically significant sites in India.

Nirmala Gandhi was the wife of Ramdas Gandhi, the third son of Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi. She shared her husband's life in central India, where Ramdas was engaged in business and in constructive-work activities connected to his father's movement. Comparatively little is documented about her own public life, but she is remembered as the mother of Sumitra Kulkarni, who carried the family's association with Sabarmati Ashram, Gandhi's institution in Ahmedabad, into the following generation.

Sushila Gandhi (nee Mashruwala) was the wife of Manilal Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's second son, and lived with him for decades at the Phoenix Settlement near Durban, South Africa, the community her father-in-law had founded. She helped run the settlement's press and communal life while raising their children, among them Arun Gandhi and Ela Gandhi, both of whom became public figures in their own right. Her life was closely bound to the Indian community's civil-rights struggles in South Africa during the era of racial discrimination that preceded and continued into apartheid.