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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi grew up without affinity for any religion. When he was in college in England, 2 Theosophists encouraged him to read the Bhagavad Gita, which holds a central place in Theosophy. So he read the Gita, and attended Theosophical classes and read Theosophical literature like "The Key to Theosophy".

While Gandhi later in life tried to portray himself as a model Hindu, in reality he was a Theosophist (which is really Satanism)
According to Indian writer, Ved Mehta, “It was actually thanks to his Theosophist friends that Gandhi started learning about his own religion".

Gandhi was introduced to founder of Theosophy Madame Blavatsky and fellow Theosophist Annie Besant.
Gandhi maintained a contact with the Theosophical Society and Besant while in South Africa and back in India.

In 1885, European and Indian Theosophists helped found the Indian National Congress (INC, like ANC?) and held a strong connection with (and control over) the Indian national rights movement, to divide the country and keep it under British control after "independence". Annie Besant, second President of the Theosophical Society from 1907 to 1931, also became president of the INC in 1917.

In 1919, Gandhi and Besant publicly stopped working together, and the Theosophical Society formally stopped having a leadership role in the INC: http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2013/01/t...on-to.html