Madurai
The Gandhi Museum in Madurai is one of the finest Gandhi museums in India — housed in a 17th-century palace and containing a remarkable collection of documents, photographs, and the blood-stained dhoti Gandhi wore when he was assassinated. Adjacent to the museum, the 12th-century Koodal Azhagar Temple is a multi-storeyed Vishnu shrine of great antiquity and architectural interest, rarely visited by tourists but deeply revered locally.
The Gandhi Museum is genuinely moving — allow at least 45 minutes here. The photographic documentation of Gandhi's time in South India is particularly well-curated and rarely seen elsewhere.