Mahatma '?' Ghandi And Jack The Ripper - Let’s check the claims in that meme one by one for accuracy - overlaps, locations ETC : GPT 4.0
Let’s check the claims in that meme one by one for accuracy:
🧘🏽♂️ Claim 1: “Gandhi came to London in 1888.”
✅ True.
Mahatma Gandhi arrived in London in September 1888 to study law at the Inner Temple.
🔪 Claim 2: “Jack the Ripper started his killing spree in 1888.”
✅ True.
The canonical five murders attributed to Jack the Ripper took place between August and November 1888 in Whitechapel, London.
🧳 Claim 3: “Gandhi returned to India in 1891.”
✅ True.
Gandhi completed his law studies and returned to India in June 1891.
☠️ Claim 4: “Jack’s supposed last murder was in 1891.”
⚠️ Partly True / Misleading.
The canonical five murders (the main accepted ones) ended in November 1888.
However, there were later murders (1889–1891) in the same area that some speculate might have been by the same killer, but most experts don’t consider them part of Jack the Ripper’s series.
🕵️ Claim 5: “Jack’s identity was never found.”
✅ True.
Jack the Ripper’s real identity remains unknown to this day, though there are many theories.
🧩 Summary
| Claim | Accurate? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Gandhi came to London in 1888 | ✅ True | Historical fact |
| Jack the Ripper started in 1888 | ✅ True | Canonical murders began August 1888 |
| Gandhi returned to India in 1891 | ✅ True | Returned June 1891 |
| Ripper’s last murder 1891 | ⚠️ Partly | Most accepted victims 1888, others disputed |
| Ripper never found | ✅ True | Still unsolved |
🧠 Verdict:
The dates about Gandhi are correct.
The Ripper timeline is mostly accurate but cherry-picked to make the “coincidence” seem stronger — in reality, his main crimes stopped three years before Gandhi left London.
Where Gandhi lived and where the Ripper murders happened.
🧘🏽♂️ Gandhi’s London Years (1888–1891)
🏠 Main Addresses:
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20 Barons Court Road, West Kensington
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Gandhi stayed here initially with the Joshi family, friends of his in London.
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This is in West London — a respectable, middle-class area even then.
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19 Denison House, Victoria Street, Westminster
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Later he stayed here as a student.
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Again, this is central/west London, near Buckingham Palace.
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Inner Temple (Law School)
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Gandhi studied at the Inner Temple, one of the four Inns of Court near Temple/Blackfriars, close to the River Thames.
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That’s still central London, not East End.
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🔪 Jack the Ripper’s Territory (1888)
📍 Location:
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The murders all occurred in Whitechapel and Spitalfields, in London’s East End.
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Key streets:
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Buck’s Row (Durward Street)
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These areas were extremely poor, overcrowded, and crime-ridden at the time.
🧭 Distance Between Them
If you map it out:
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West Kensington → Whitechapel ≈ 6 to 7 miles (10–11 km).
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Inner Temple → Whitechapel ≈ 2.5 miles (4 km).
That’s a completely different world in 1880s London.
The East End was working-class, rough, full of migrants.
The West End and Temple area were genteel and student/professional territory — not where Gandhi would have wandered, especially given his modest, disciplined lifestyle.
🧩 So Did Gandhi Overlap With the Ripper’s World?
Chronologically: Yes, both were in London in 1888.
Geographically: No, not even close.
There’s no record Gandhi ever visited the East End or had any reason to be there.
He was a shy, vegetarian law student who spent much of his time reading, attending law lectures, and trying to adapt to English customs.
⚖️ Conclusion
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Gandhi and Jack the Ripper were in London at the same time (1888–1891).
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But they lived in completely different social and physical worlds.
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The overlap is purely chronological, not geographical or behavioral.
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The “coincidence” in the meme is technically true but misleading.
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