All you need to know about the currency picture of Mahatma Gandhi

Father of the Nation, The Mahatma, and Baapu Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was very popular in public at the time of independence, he was a leader yet he was a common man. We have heard of countless struggles he put forward to give us an independent India. He along with many other freedom fighters fought for independence and to mark his achievement.

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Some scholars state Gandhi supported a religiously diverse India, while others state that the Muslim leaders who championed the partition and creation of a separate Muslim Pakistan considered Gandhi to be Hindu nationalist or revivalist. For example, in his letters to Mohammad Iqbal, Jinnah accused Gandhi to be favoring a Hindu rule and revivalism, that Gandhi led the Indian National Congress was a fascist party.

We have been seeing the picture of a smiling Mahatma Gandhi on our currency notes for a long time. Many of us have been seeing it since always, and that is often the first picture to come in mind when we think of Gandhi. But ever wondered where did that picture come from? How did we manage to get such a perfect shot, at the right moment, for the right purpose?

While many of us thought that it was a sketch drawn but no it is a photo. In reality, the image was cropped from an actual photograph.

Lord Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence

Lord Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence was a British Politician. He was a leader of the woman suffrage movement in Great Britain during the first two decades of the 20th century and then served as the secretary of state of India and Burma.

The photographer which took this historic photo is unknown.

The picture is clicked at the Rashtrapati Bhavan which was then known as Viceroy House.

The mirror image of the original picture has been used on the Mahatma Gandhi Series of bank notes.