ABSTRACT
In the end of January 1947, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry received several telegrams from India in which Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was proposed. Indian communities and requested the Noble Committee (N.C.) to honour Gandhi before he was too weak to travel to Oslo and receive the award. The goodwill of the N.C. can be derived from the fact that, though there was neither international support nor the evidence provided in Gandhi's favour, the historian and Consultant of the Nobel Institute, Jens A. Seip was still tasked with preparation of a new report. Congress was a relatively insignificant movement among Indians. Gandhi gave it life and remained the strongest bond between leaders and the masses. Gandhi called England's promise of independence for India 'a post-dated cheque on a bank that was obviously failing'. Gandhi's action was a campaign to drive the British out of the country immediately and without negotiations.
