Editing Mahatma Gandhi (section)

=== Current impact within India ===
[[File:Gandhi Memorial Kanyakumari.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Gandhi Mandapam (Chennai)|Gandhi Mandapam]], a temple in [[Kanyakumari]], was erected in honour of Gandhi.]]
India, with its rapid economic modernisation and urbanisation, has rejected [[Gandhian economics|Gandhi's economics]]<ref>{{cite book |author=Ghosh, B. N. |title=Contemporary issues in development economics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aM18jLPbhj8C&pg=PA211|year=2001 |publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-25136-5|page=211}}</ref> but accepted much of his politics and continues to revere his memory. Reporter Jim Yardley notes that "modern India is hardly a Gandhian nation, if it ever was one. His vision of a village-dominated economy was shunted aside during his lifetime as rural romanticism, and his call for a national ethos of personal austerity and nonviolence has proved antithetical to the goals of an aspiring economic and military power." By contrast, Gandhi is "given full credit for India's political identity as a tolerant, secular democracy."<ref name="Obama">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/world/asia/07gandhi.html |title=Obama Invokes Gandhi, Whose Ideal Eludes India |author=Yardley, Jim |date=6 November 2010 |work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=22 January 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817091454/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/world/asia/07gandhi.html |archive-date=17 August 2013 }}</ref>

Gandhi's birthday, 2 October, is a [[national holiday in India]], [[Gandhi Jayanti]]. His image also appears on [[Mahatma Gandhi Series (banknotes)|paper currency of all denominations]] issued by [[Reserve Bank of India]], except for the [[Indian 1-rupee note|one rupee note]].<ref name="rbi_notes">{{cite web |url=http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/ic_banknotes.aspx |title=Reserve Bank of India&nbsp;– Bank Notes |publisher=Rbi.org.in |access-date=5 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026095526/http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/ic_banknotes.aspx |archive-date=26 October 2011 }}</ref> Gandhi's date of death, 30 January, is commemorated as a [[Martyrs' Day (India)|Martyrs' Day]] in India.<ref name="MDay">{{cite web |author=Chatterjee, Sailen |url=http://pib.nic.in/feature/feyr2000/fjan2000/f270120001.html |title=Martyrs' Day |work=Features |publisher=Press Information Bureau |access-date=30 January 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202060355/http://pib.nic.in/feature/feyr2000/fjan2000/f270120001.html |archive-date=2 February 2012 }}</ref>

There are three temples in India dedicated to Gandhi.<ref name="GandhiGod">{{cite web |url=https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/Here,%20Gandhi%20is%20god/articleshow/21768559.cms |title=Here, Gandhi is God |author=Kaggere, Niranjan |publisher=BangaloreMirror.com |date=2 October 2010 |access-date=29 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131004222327/http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalore/others/Here%2C%20Gandhi%20is%20god/articleshow/21768559.cms |archive-date=4 October 2013 }}</ref> One is located at [[Sambalpur]] in Odisha, the second at Nidaghatta village near Kadur in [[Chikmagalur]] district of [[Karnataka]], and the third at [[Chityal, Nalgonda district|Chityal]] in the district of [[Nalgonda district|Nalgonda]], [[Telangana]].<ref name="GandhiGod" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Mahatma Gandhi Temple |url=http://www.mahatmagandhitemple.org/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414101632/http://mahatmagandhitemple.org/|archive-date=14 April 2018 |access-date=20 February 2023 |website=www.mahatmagandhitemple.org}}</ref> The Gandhi Memorial in [[Kanyakumari]] resembles central Indian Hindu temples and the [[Tamukkam Palace|Tamukkam or Summer Palace]] in [[Madurai]] now houses the Mahatma Gandhi Museum.<ref name="AbramEdwards2003">{{cite book |last1=Abram |first1=David|last2=Edwards|first2=Nick|title=The Rough Guide to South India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sEhJBfbhTAAC|access-date=21 January 2012|year=2003|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-84353-103-6|page=506}}</ref>