The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize
in Peace, 1901-1956

Year:	1947
Number:	4-1
Nominee:
Name:	Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1869
Year, death:	1948
Profession/Category:	Jurist. Leader of Indian nationalist, independence and social justice movements
City:	Delhi
Country:	IN (INDIA)
Motivation:	Gandhi advocated racial, social and political peace, and he was "a living incarnation of the ideal of peace itself" while leading the Indian nationalist movement in a non-violent struggle against British rule.
Nominator:
Name:	BG Kher
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	Prime Minister of Bombay province
City:	Bombay
Country:	IN (INDIA)
Evaluation:
Evaluator 1:
Name:	Jens Arup Seip
Gender:	M