mahatma gandhi founded the sevagram ashram near wardha in maharashtra.
who founded the sevagram ashram near wardha in maharashtra?
mahatma gandhi
sevagram ashram was the residence of mahatma gandhi from 1936 to 1948. after his 1930 dandi salt march, he decided not to return to his ashram at sabarmati. after spending two years in jail, he travelled around india and, at the invitation of the gandhian industrialist jamnalal bajaj, stayed for some time in wardha city at jamnalal's bungalow. in 1936, at the age of 67, gandhiji moved to a village (which he subsequently called sewagram - (hindi for village of service) at the outskirts of wardha and started to live here in a group of huts with his wife kasturba and other disciples. this slowly grew into an ashram, where gandhi lived with his followers for the next twelve years, until his death. the premises are very calming. many personal items used by gandhi and his contemporaries are preserved here including his spectacles, telephone, notebook, tables, mats, etc...
wardha
sevagram is 8 km from wardha town in maharashtra and 75 km from nagpur. in spite of many practical difficulties, gandhiji decided to settle here. though he did not have any intentions of keeping anybody with him except his wife kasturba, pressure of work necessitated more colleagues with him till sevagram ashram became a full-fledged institution. there were no facilities at sevagram, not even a post or telegraph office. the letters used to be brought from wardha. there was another village in this region named shegaon, made famous by the residence of saint gajanan maharaj. so, gandhiji's letters used to get misdirected. therefore, it was decided in 1940 to rename this village as sevagram or 'the village of service'.
sevagram