Kaba Gandhi No Delo, Heritage museum in Rajkot, India.
Kaba Gandhi No Delo is a two-story residence in Rajkot organized around a central courtyard with nine rooms and a kitchen, featuring a large entrance gate and a traditional hand pump. The structure reflects the layout of a prosperous household from that era with functional spaces for family life and domestic work.
Karamchand Gandhi, known as Kaba Gandhi, moved from Porbandar to Rajkot in 1874 when appointed Diwan of Rajkot State; the family followed two years later. In early 1880 the state granted him 400 square yards, and the family moved into the newly built house in 1881, when Mohandas was 12. He married Kasturba here and his sons Harilal and Manilal were born during the family's stay from 1881 to 1887. Kaba Gandhi died in 1885; the house remained the family's primary home until 1915.
The name means "Kaba Gandhi's residence" in Gujarati, after Karamchand Gandhi, who was called Kaba and served as Diwan of Rajkot State. The house is marked 8, Kadiya Navline, and its permanent pictorial exhibition, Gandhi Smriti, displays photographs, paintings and objects linked to Mahatma Gandhi. A hand pump stands in the courtyard.
The house is at 8, Kadiya Navline, on Lakhajiraj Road off Gheekanta Road, in Rajkot's old quarter, where the entrance gate is larger than those of the small shops around it. Visitors enter through the arched gateway into the courtyard, where the hand pump stands; the nine rooms and kitchen open off it. The building has two floors, so part of the exhibition is upstairs.
The house carries the address 8, Kadiya Navline, and its gate is larger than those of the small shops around it. In the courtyard stands a hand pump that served the household. The Gandhi family sold the house in 1920; the Saurashtra government bought it back in 1948.
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