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 | | To these must be added the name of Kasturba, wife of Mahat Gandhi. |
 | | Kasturba was born in the same year--1869--and the same place-Porbandar-as Gandhiji.Her father, Gokuldas Mukanji, and Gandhiji's father, Karamchand Gandhi, were great friends.The boy and the girl were betrothed when they were seven and married when they were thirteen. |
 | | For visiting the Jagannath temple at Puri, barred to Harijans, she had been strongly criticized by him; and once, when she had indiscreetly accumulated some money, privately in the Ashram, he had castigated her in the columns of Young India. |
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