Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

You've been immature and you've lied.

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

I was trying to manipulate you.

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

I don't know.

I guess you'd have to ask. Someone that has sex. Someone that has sex. Right. And remember,

it's just between us.

Hello and welcome to Great Reputations, our series exploring the divisive legacies of some of history's

biggest names. In today's episode, we'll be discussing Indian politician and activist Mahatma Gandhi.

Born in 1869 to a Hindu family, in what was then British India,

he trained as a lawyer in London before returning to India and then moving to South Africa.

He remained in that country for two decades, where he became interested

in civil rights. Upon moving back to India in 1915, he supported working people in their

struggles against discrimination and taxation, and became leader of the political party,

the Indian National Congress in 1921. Key anti-clonial efforts in this period included his dandy

salt march against British taxation in 1930

and the launch of the Quit India Movement in 1942 at the height of the Second World War.

In 1939, just before the war began and again in 1940, Gandhi wrote letters to Hitler, attempted to avert and then protesting against the conflict. Neither

reached the German leader. After the war, British India was partitioned into two dominions,

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