Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as ''Mahatma Gandhi,'' informally Father of the Nation#List, The Father of the Nation in India, undertook 18 fasting, fasts during Indian Freedom Movement, India's freedom movement. His longest fasts lasted 21 days. Fasting was a weapon used by Gandhi as part of his philosophy of ''Ahimsa'' (nonviolence, non-violence) as well as satyagraha.

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List of fasts done by Mahatma Gandhi
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