Gandhi the trainee barrister in London in 1888–91, with his slicked-down hair and clear parting, wearing a three-piece suit with wing collar and bow tie. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Getty Images)
Gandhi as a radical lawyer in South Africa with his secretary Sonja Schlesin and his friend Hermann Kallenbach. (Dinodia/Topfoto)
Gandhi and Kasturba in 1913, Gandhi wearing the knee-length white cotton tunic and the skirt-like lungi of the indentured labourers whom he is leading to victory. (Ullsteinbild/TopFoto)
Annie Besant, radical precursor of Gandhi as a mystic and nationalist leader. (The Granger Collection/TopFoto)
Madeleine Slade, known as Mirabehn in Gandhi's ashrams, an English gentlewoman who became one of his disciples. (Photo by Wallace Kirkland/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Gandhi wearing the coarse, homespun cloth called khadi that became a uniform of nationalist defiance and an encouragement to local industry. (Picturepoint/TopFoto)
The transformation from English gentleman to ascetic is complete: Gandhi spinning cloth, posing for a picture wearing only a loincloth. (Ullsteinbild/TopFoto)
Gandhi and Sarojini Naidu, preparing to defy the Salt Act at Dandi in 1930. (Press Association Images)
The picture widely represented as Gandhi picking up salt at Dandi on 6 April 1930. In fact it was taken at Bhimrad three days later. (Picturepoint/TopFoto)
Gandhi finding his dress not entirely appropriate for the British climate as he arrives for the round-table conference on Indian constitutional reform in 1931. (AP/AP/Press Association Images)
Lancashire textile workers cheer Gandhi, September 1931. (Ullsteinbild/TopFoto)
Gandhi in characteristic pose, leaning on two women, his ‘walking sticks’—here, his doctor and biographer Sushila Nayar to his left, and his grandniece (by marriage) Abha Gandhi to his right. (AP/AP/Press Association Images)
Gandhi's assassin, Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse, in a Delhi courtroom to hear his arraignment. (AP/AP/Press Association Images)
The loincloth versus the sharp suit: Gandhi with Mohammad Ali Jinnah, leader of the Muslim League. (Ullsteinbild/TopFoto)
Gandhi with loyal follower Vallabhbhai Patel, later home minister and deputy prime minister of independent India. (Max Desfor/AP/Press Association Images)
Gandhi with future Indian prime minister Indira, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, later Indira Gandhi. (Picturepoint/TopFoto)
Gandhi with Lord and Lady Mountbatten, the last Viceroy and Vicereine of British India. (AP/AP/Press Association Images)
Gandhi sharing a joke with Jawaharlal Nehru, who became the first prime minister of independent India. (Max Desfor/AP/Press Association Images)
Gandhi with Abha, to his left, and his grandniece (sometimes referred to as his granddaughter) Manu to his right. They were beside him when he was shot dead. (Ullsteinbild/TopFoto)
Gandhi on his bier, strewn with flowers, after his assassination on 30 January 1948. (Ann Ronan Picture Library/HIP/TopFoto)