Though nominated five times, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize. On the shortlist in 1948, Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, just days before the committee's final ...

The statue, located under a banyan tree, depicted Gandhi in his simplistic garb, in reference to his 1930 march against the salt tax in India.

Despite being globally revered as the embodiment of non-violence and peace, Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace ...