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Mohandas Gandhi of All India Congress on August 22, 1942. (AP Photo) ( Mohandas Gandhi )

Indians clean a statue of Mahatma Gandhi ahead of Gandhi Jayanti in Bhubaneswar, India, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Gandhi Jayanti is a national holiday in the country, marking the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout) ( India Mahatma Gandhi )

India's ruling Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi offers floral tributes at a memorial of Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of his birth anniversary, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das) ( India Gandhi Birth Anniversary )

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, offers prayers at a memorial of Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of his birth anniversary, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das) ( India Gandhi Birth Anniversary )

Mahatma Gandhi reading The Times newspaper with staff around April 23, 1930. (AP Photo) ( Mahatma Gandhi Read )

More than a hundred thousand Hindus and Muslims are gathered on the bank of the Sabarmati River at Ahmedabad, India in 1931 to hear Mohandas K. Gandhi speak on independence for India. (AP Photo) ( Mohandas Gandhi )

Photo from a period album collected by AP reporter James A. Mills, ca. 1931, while Mills was covering Mahatma Gandhi and his followers. (AP Photo/James A. Mills collection) ( India Gandhi )

Indian children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi assemble at an event to mark Gandhi's birth anniversary in Chennai, India, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/ Arun Sankar K) ( India Gandhi Birth Anniversary )

Indian children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi assemble at an event to mark Gandhi's birth anniversary in Chennai, India, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/ Arun Sankar K) ( India Gandhi Birth Anniversary )

Indian children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi walk during a procession to mark Gandhi's birth anniversary in Kolhapur, Maharashtra state, India, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. (AP Photo) ( India Gandhi Birth Anniversary )

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi with Dr. Smant Mehta, of the Surat Congress Committee, before he was arrested around May 20, 1930. (AP Photo) ( Mahatma Gandhi 1930 )

Mohandas K. Gandhi poses with his wife, Kasturba, on their return to India from South Africa in 1915. (AP Photo) ( GANDHI WIFE KASTURBA 1915 )

Mohandas K. Gandhi, center seated, is surrounded by workers in his law office in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1902. Gandhi, the country's first lawyer who is a person of color to be admitted to the bar, spent most of his 20 years in South Africa protesting the treatment of Indians by the British. The others in the photo are not identified. (AP Photo) ( GANDHI LAW OFFICE )

Indian spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi, on a public platform in Bangalore, India, Aug. 29, 1927, for the first time since his illness. (AP Photo) ( GANDHI SPEAKS IN BANGALORE )

Mahatma Gandhi is shown before his arrest in Surat, Bombay, for disobeying the salt laws, May 13, 1930. (AP Photo) ( Mahatma Gandhi 1930 )

Mahatma Gandhi of India wearing the famous linen cloth in 1931. (AP Photo) ( Mohandas Gandhi )

An Indian man dressed as Mahatma Gandhi prepares to cross a busy road as he returns after attending a function to mark Gandhi's birth anniversary in Bhubaneswar, India, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout) ( India Gandhi Birth Anniversary )

Indian artists participate in a painting movement titled "Colours of Mahatma" held as part of the Gandhi Jayanthi Celebrations at a Mall in Bangalore on October 2, 2013. 144 artists took part in the painting marathon to mark the 144th birthday of The Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images ( 523446335 )

Indian artists participate in a painting movement titled "Colours of Mahatma" held as part of the Gandhi Jayanthi Celebrations at a Mall in Bangalore on October 2, 2013. 144 artists took part in the painting marathon to mark the 144th birthday of The Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images ( 523446438 )

Police block an outlawed procession in front of the Nationalists' Congress headquarters in Bombay, July 5, 1930, on the ground that it was in celebration of "defiance of authority" in the Sholapur riots when fourteen people were killed. The native police, Mahratties, are shown in the foreground with their lathies or sticks of bamboo. Two European police sergeants, wearing helmets, are seen near the Gandhi flag. (AP Photo/J.P. Howe) ( Sholapur Day Outlawed Procession )

Supporters of Mohanda Karamchand Gandhi behind barbed wire in a concentration camp around July 12, 1930. (AP Photo) ( Gandhi Supporters 1930 )

Women are playing a large role in the disobedience campaign being carried on against the British in India as shown during a demonstration in Madras, May 9, 1930, before Gandhi was arrested. (AP Photo) ( India Unrest 1930 )

President of the Republic of Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (R) receives a memento at Rajghat, memorial for Mahatma Gandhi, during a visit in New Delhi on September 11, 2013. Johnson-Sirleaf is in India for a five-day state visit. PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty Images ( 522779184 )

Indian children dressed like Mahatma Gandhi assemble at an event during Gandhi Jayanti in Ajmer, India, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. Gandhi Jayanti is the birth anniversary of Gandhi, the father of the nation. (AP Photo/Deepak Sharma) ( India Mahatma Gandhi )

People offer their prayers at a memorial of Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of his birth anniversary, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das) ( India Gandhi Birth Anniversary )

President of the Republic of Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf lays a wreath at Rajghat, memorial for Mahatma Gandhi, during a visit in New Delhi on September 11, 2013. Johnson-Sirleaf is in India for a five-day state visit. PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty Images ( 522779168 )

Mahatma Gandhi (right) with fellow delegate Madan Mohan Malaviya aboard the S.S. Rajputana en route to the Second Round Table Conference on Dominion Status for India (September - December 1931) in London. (AP Photo/James A. Mills) ( India Gandhi )

An Indian civic worker cleans a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Mumbai on September 30, 2012 ahead of Gandhi's 144th birth anniversary. Indians all over the country celebrate Gandhi's birthday with prayers and various social activities as a mark of respect to Gandhi, famed as the torchbearer of India's fight against British rule. INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images ( 523374652 )

Indian social workers shout slogans after placing garlands on a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Amritsar on October 1, 2013,on the eve of Gandhi's 144th birth anniversary. Indians all over the country celebrate Gandhi's birthday with prayers and various social activities as a mark of respect to Gandhi, famed as the torchbearer of India's fight against British rule. NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images ( 523405200 )

Indian social workers shout slogans after placing garlands on a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Amritsar on October 1, 2013,on the eve of Gandhi's 144th birth anniversary. Indians all over the country celebrate Gandhi's birthday with prayers and various social activities as a mark of respect to Gandhi, famed as the torchbearer of India's fight against British rule. NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images ( 523405202 )

Ninety year old Indian cartoonist and Gandhian, Ranchhodbhai Purani poses at his residence in Ahmedabad on October 1, 2013, on the eve of the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Indian nation. Purani who has been influenced by Gandhi's principles since he was 14 years old, worked as a cartoonist from 1944 to 1986 in various regional Gujarati newspapers and is currently working as a freelancer adding to his collection of some 10,000 images. SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images ( 523420249 )

Mahatma Gandhi laughing around April 23, 1930. (AP Photo) ( Mahatma Gandhi Laugh )