Gandhi’s Final Will Missing

As I have previously discussed, Gandhi’s “last” will andtestament, handwritten and signed in 1921, was recently auctioned off inEngland.  But experts say Gandhi made upto four wills, the final one being handwritten and signed in 1940. 

The original 1940 will entrusted to the Navajivan Trust cannot be located, but a true copy of the typed text is available in the Trust’srecords.  A trustee of the NavajivanTrust said the original may have been left at the courthouse when probated or itmay be lost in the Trust’s vast records.

Gandhi named his personal secretary, Mahadev Desai, and aNavajivan trustee as executors of his two-page will.

See Jumana Shah, Where’s Mahatma Gandhi’s Final Will?,DNA India, May 26, 2013.