| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1948 |
| Number: | 6 - 2 |
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1869 |
| Year, Death: | 1948 |
| Profession: | Jurist. Leader of Indian nationalist, independence and social justice movements. |
| City: | Delhi |
| Country: | INDIA (IN) |
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| 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. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Christian Stephansen Oftedal |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (1946-1948). |
| Country: | NORWAY (NO) |
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| Comments: |
Gandhi was shot by a Hindu fanatic January 30, 1948. The Norwegian Nobel Committee decided that there would be no award in 1948, and that the statutes of the Nobel Foundation did not allow them to award a post mortem peace prize. The Swedish Nobel Foundation had strongly recommended that they did not give the prize to Gandhi post mortem.
Oftedal acted as a substitute member of the Nobel Committee for Hambro in 1946 and for Hallvard Lange 1947-49. He was the only member of the Nobel Committee who wanted to give Gandhi a post mortem prize. |
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