Produced by: Priyanka Das
Mahatma Gandhi is respected worldwide for his philosophy of non-violence.
Countries around the world have paid homage to the leader by erecting his statues.
Gandhi's statue was inaugurated in 1993 by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, at Church Street in Pietermaritzburg. This is the same the city where Gandhi was thrown off a train for not being white.
The statue in London's Parliament Square was unveiled in 2015 by then British PM David Cameron. Then FM Arun Jaitley, Gopalkrishna Gandhi (Gandhi's grandson), & actor Amitabh Bachchan attended it.
The Gandhi Memorial International Foundation donated a bronze sculpture of Gandhi in 1986, which was installed on Union Square Park in New York City.
In the 15th year of India's independence, the Indian government presented Argentina with a Gandhi statue, made by Ram Vanji Sutar.
Fulfilling Gandhi's desire to have his ashes scattered in the Nile River, a statue of Gandhi was constructed close to the source of the Nile to mark his death and legacy.
To mark the 60th anniversary of the 1948 Treaty of Amity between India and Switzerland, the Indian government gifted Switzerland a Gandhi statue.
In 2018, President Ram Nath Kovind unveiled a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Sydney.
The Embassy of India in Moscow houses a sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi, which was created in 2007 by Alexander Ryabichev. It is a replica of the original bronze statue created by his father Dimitry Ryabichev in 1984.