Rajkot: the city of Gandhi's childhood

In western Gujarat, Rajkot preserves the house where Mahatma Gandhi spent part of his childhood.

The center, where Gandhi spent his childhood, can be comfortably visited by motorized rickshaw.

The Kaba Gandhi No Delo, childhood home of Mahatma Gandhi, now a museum, preserves family rooms and personal possessions.

Just steps away, Watson Museum, a British colonial building, displays historical and artistic artifacts of the Kathiawar region, including ancient manuscripts.

Continuing toward the center you visit Jubilee Garden, a public park built to celebrate Queen Victoria's jubilee at the end of the nineteenth century.

Toward evening, Rajkot's markets animate commerce in silverware and traditional Gujarat textiles.

Gandhi lived in Rajkot from the age of seven, attending the local school before moving to England to study law, a formative period that the city still celebrates today in its dedicated museum, visited annually by school groups from across India.

Rajkot remains one of Gujarat's major industrial centers, renowned especially for the production of automotive components and hand-worked silver objects crafted according to traditional techniques passed down through generations of local artisans, exported throughout India.