IIB 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5517 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
DECEMBER 7, 2020 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
AN ACT 
To affirm the friendship of the governments of the United 
States of America and the Republic of India, and to 
establish a bilateral partnership for collaboration to ad-
vance development and shared values, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Gandhi-King Scholarly 
Exchange Initiative Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) The peoples of the United States and India 
have a long history of friendship and the interests 
of the peoples of the United States, India, and the 
world will benefit from a stronger United States- 
India partnership. 
(2) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Martin 
Luther King, Jr., were dedicated leaders fighting for 
social justice and social change, peace, and civil 
rights in their respective communities, and countries 
and in the world. 
(3) The use of nonviolent civil disobedience is a 
shared tactic that has played a key role in defeating 
social injustice in India, the United States, and in 
other parts of the world. 
(4) Mohandas Gandhi, who was born on Octo-
ber 2, 1869, was murdered on January 30, 1948, 
after dedicating his life to the peaceful empowerment 
of the people of India and to the end of British colo-
nial rule. 
(5) Martin Luther King, Jr., who was born on 
January 15, 1929, was murdered on April 4, 1968, 
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after a life dedicated to peaceful movements against 
segregation, discrimination, racial injustice, and pov-
erty. 
(6) In February 1959, Dr. King and his wife, 
Coretta Scott King, traveled throughout India. By 
the end of his monthlong visit, Dr. King said, ‘‘I am 
more convinced than ever before that the method of 
nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon 
available to oppressed people in their struggle for 
justice and human dignity.’’. 
(7) Fifty years after Dr. King’s visit, All India 
Radio, the national radio station of India, discovered 
a taped message by Dr. King that emphasized the 
intellectual harmony between the messages of Dr. 
King and Mohandas Gandhi on nonviolent social ac-
tion. 
(8) On August 22, 2011, the Dr. Martin Lu-
ther King, Jr., National Memorial opened to the 
public in Washington, DC. This newest memorial on 
the National Mall pays tribute to Dr. King’s na-
tional and international contributions to world peace 
through nonviolent social change. 
(9) The 116th Congress coincides with both the 
150th birth anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi and 
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