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== History ==

When [[Gandhi]] started his [[Dandi March|padayatra (foot march)]] in 1930 from [[Sabarmati Ashram]] to Ahmedabad for the [[Salt Satyagraha]], he decided not to return to Sabarmati till India achieved independence. Gandhi was imprisoned for more than two years. On his release he spent sometime travelling around India. He decided to make a village in Central India his headquarters.<ref> Venugopal Maddipati, "An Architecture of Finitude," Gandhi and Architecture: A Time for Low-Cost Housing (Oxon: Routledge, 2020): https://www.academia.edu/42743173/Gandhi_and_Architecture_A_Time_for_Low_Cost_Housing_The_Philosophy_of_Finitude_Forthcoming_July_2020_ </ref> He came to Wardha in 1934, at the invitation of his follower and industrialist, [[Jamnalal Bajaj]] and stayed in one of the rooms at Jamnalal's bungalow (Bajajwadi)<ref>{{cite web|title=Bajajwadi|url=http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/wardha/bajajwadi|website=jamnalalbajajfoundation.org|publisher=The Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation|accessdate=17 June 2014}}</ref> at [[Wardha]] and in the Prarthana mandir of Mahila Ashram for sometime.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Desai|first1=Mahadev|title=Day To Day With Gandhi|date=1968|publisher=Sarva Seva Sangh Prakashan|location=Wardha|url=https://archive.org/details/daytodaywithgand02maha|accessdate=17 June 2014}}</ref>

 

Sevagram is 8&nbsp;km from Wardha town in Maharashtra and 75&nbsp;km from Nagpur. In spite of many practical difficulties, Gandhiji decided to settle here. Though he did not have any intentions of keeping anybody with him except his wife [[Kasturba]], pressure of work necessitated more colleagues with him till Sevagram Ashram became a full-fledged institution. There were no facilities at Sevagram, not even a post or telegraph office. The letters used to be brought from Wardha. There was another village in this region named Shegaon, made famous by the residence of Saint [[Gajanan Maharaj]]. So, Gandhiji's letters used to get misdirected. Therefore, it was decided in 1940 to rename this village as Sevagram<ref>[http://www.gandhiashramsevagram.org/ Official website of Gandhiji in Sewagram], ''Sevagram and Mahatma Gandhi''</ref> or 'the village of service'.

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