When Manilal Mohandas Gandhi was born on 28 October 1892, in Rajkot, Tonk, Rajasthan, India, his father, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was 23 and his mother, Kasturbai Makhanji Kapadia, was 23. He married Sushila Mashruwala in 1927. He lived in Inanda, Natal, South Africa in 1912. He died on 5 April 1956, in Phoenix, Durban, Natal, South Africa, at the age of 63.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
The maximum hours for children to work were set to 55 per week.
British Parliament enacts the South Africa Act, proposed constitution of Union of South Africa.
Some characteristic forenames: Indian Rajesh, Ashok, Ramesh, Pravin, Bharat, Dilip, Sanjay, Dinesh, Suresh, Anil, Mukesh, Rajendra.
Indian (Gujarat, Mumbai, Rajasthan, Punjab): Bania, Vania, Arora, Jat, Jain, Parsi, and Sikh occupational name meaning ‘perfume seller’ in modern Indic languages, from Sanskrit gāndhika, from gandha ‘perfume’. In Gujarati the word also means ‘grocer’ or ‘pharmacist’. This name is found chiefly in Gujarat among Vanias and Parsis. It is also found among the Oswal Banias of Rajasthan and among the Aroras and the Jats of the Punjab.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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