Mahatma Gandhi

463 Pages·2014·2.32 MB·English

by  Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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© Jaico Publishing House Complete & Unabridged MAHATMA GANDHI
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Twenty-third Jaico Impression (Reformatted): 2010
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PREFACE TO THIS EDITION
It was my desire to re-edit this volume and present it to Gandhi on his eightieth
birthday, October 2, 1949. Fates decreed otherwise, and it has now become a
memorial volume.
“No country but India and no religion but Hinduism could have given birth
to a Gandhi,” said the editorial in the London Times on the day after his death. It
is true that we see in Gandhi the qualities we regard as characteristic of India, i.e.
characteristic of India at its inspired best. Yet he belonged by right to humanity’s
greatest of all time. Asia has awakened under the touch of Europe, and Europe,
in its present disordered and puzzled condition, is looking towards the East. To a
world which is being shattered by man’s selfi sh error and intolerance, which is
questioning the divine nature of the human spirit, Gandhi’s message of the life of
God is the soul of man and of the way of non-violence in human conduct is of
supreme value. In this hour of crisis India is proud to have made such an
imperishable contribution.
A few extracts from the many and varied tributes to Gandhi after his death
are reprinted in Appendix II.
S.R.
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
Owing to the distracted condition of the world-a war in the East and a near-war
in Europe-and my absence from India since the end of last year, it has not been
possible to get together all the persons who would have been glad to join in this
world tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his seventieth birthday.
The different essays and refl ections, each with its individual character, might be
expected to make the book uneven and disconnected, but I hope that it has not
done so. Almost every page is knit together by a central and never-forgotten
theme, the challenge and message of Gandhi to the contemporary world. By
general admission something is wrong with it. We are living in a singular
moment of history, a moment of crisis, in the literal sense of the word. In every
branch of our activity, material and spiritual, we seem to have arrived at a critical
turning-point. Those who have surveyed the scene have given us different
answers about the cause and cure of our ailing civilization. Gandhi tells us that
we, who constitute the social order, are the disease and we must change, if
civilization is to improve.
Those who read these pages will be impressed by the fundamental unity between
Gandhi’s theory and practice, the exquisite harmony of his life and work, which
is the very essence of sincerity. It marks him out as one of the outstanding
personalities, not only of our time but of all time.
The contributions are arranged in alphabetical order. A few of Gandhi’s most
distinctive utterances which are of more than local and temporary importance
are brought together in an Appendix.
The Editor thanks Mr. Stephen Hobhouse for his kindness in reading the proofs.
S.R.
Contents
introduction
MAHATMA GANDHI: AN ESTIMATE
by Horace G. Alexander
THE TRIBUTE OF A FRIEND
by C. F. Andrews
THE ESSENCE OF GANDHIJI
by George S. Arundale
THE SERVANT OF INDIA
by Bishop V. S. Azariah
GANDHI, AS BRIDGE AND RECONCILER
by Ernest Barker
“A LIGHT UPON HIS NAME”
by Lawrence Binyon
“A WAY OF LIVING”
by Mrs. Pearl S. Buck
MAHATMA
by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
TWO MEETINGS WITH GANDHI
by Lionel Curtis
GANDHI AND THE CONGRESS
by Bhagavan Das
GANDHI’S STATESMANSHIP
by Albert Einstein
GANDHIJI AS A SOCIAL SCIENTIST AND SOCIAL INVENTOR
by Richard B. Gregg
THE HOUR AND THE MAN
by Gerald Heard
M. K. GANDHI : APOSTLE OF LIGHT AND TRUTH-FORCE
by Carl Heath
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GANDHI FOR THE OUTLOOK OF A CHRISTIAN
PACIFIST
by Stephen Hobhouse
ON FREEDOM AND BELONGING
by W. E. Hocking
THE NATURE OF GANDHI’S GREATNESS
by John Haynes Holmes
A SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBUTE
by R. F. Alfred Hoernle
GANDHI IN SOUTH AFRICA
by Jan H. Hofmeyer
GANDHI AND THE FUTURE OF PACIFISM
by Laurence Housman
GANDHI’S SATYAGRAHA AND THE WAY OF THE CROSS
by John S. Hoyland
AN INDIAN STATESMAN’S TRIBUTE
by Sir Mirza M. Ismail
THE AUTHORITY OF DETACHMENT AND MORAL FORCE
b y C . E. M. Joad
MAHATMA GANDHI AND SOUL FORCE
by Rufus M. Jones
GANDHI’S ACHIEVEMENTS FOR THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
by A. Berriedale Keith
GANDHI’S PLACE IN WORLD HISTORY
by Count Hermann Keyserling
A BIRTHDAY GREETING
by George Lansbury
GANDHI’S FAITH AND INFLUENCE
by John Macmurray
THE NEED OF A LIFE INSTILLED WITH UNITY
by Don Salvador de Madariaga
THE POWER OF NON-VIOLENCE
by Miss Ethel Mannin
GANDHI AND THE CHILD
by Dr. Maria Montessori
THE EVOLUTION OF MR.GANDHI
by Arthur Moore
THE HINDU IDEA OF TRUTH
by J.H. Muirhead
GANDHI’S SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY
by Gilbert Murray
A VISIT FROM THE FAR EAST
by Yone Noguchi
GANDHI IN HIS MANY ASPECTS
by B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya
GANDHI’S MESSAGE TO THE WHOLE WORLD
by Miss Maude D. Petre
THE WISDOM OF GANDHIJI
by Hy. S. L. Polak
THE TRIUMPH OF THE SPIRIT
by Llewelyn Powys
HOMAGE FROM CHINA
by M. Quo Tai Chi
A STATESMAN IN BEGGAR’S GARB
by Sir Abdul Qadir
INDIA’S DEBT TO GANDHI
by Rajendra Prasad
THE FOOL OF GOD
by Reginald Reynolds
HOMAGE FROM A MAN OF THE WEST TO GANDHI
by Romain Rolland
AN ENGLISHWOMAN’S FAITH
by Miss Maude Royden
THE FRUITS OF TRUE LEADERSHIP
by Lord Samuel
IMPRESSIONS FROM THE ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE
by Lord Sankey
A GREAT PROPHET OF HINDUISM
by D. S. Sarma
THE GREAT LITTLE MAHATMA
by Mrs. Clare Sheridan
GANDHI’S POLITICAL METHOD
by J. C. Smuts
THE POET’S VERDICT
by Rabindranath Tagore
GANDHI : A CHARACTER STUDY
by Edward Thompson
THE PATH OF SATYAGRAHA
by Srimati Sophia Wadia
GANDHI’S FAST FOR HINDU-MUSLIM UNITY
by Bishop Foss Westcott
MAHATMA GANDHI AND AGGRESSIVE PACIFISM
by Jack C. Winslow
REFLECTIONS ON MR. GANDHI’S LEADERSHIP
by H.G.Wood
GANDHI—AFTER FORTY-SEVEN YEARS
by Sir Francis Younghusband
PATRIOTISM AND PUBLIC SPIRIT
by Sir Alfred Zimmern
THANKS TO GANDHI
by Arnold Zweig
LETTERS from Lord Halifax, Upton Sinclair, A. H. Compton
MEMORIAL SECTION
INTRODUCTION
by S. Radhakrishnan
GANDHI, THE MARTYR
by Vera Brittain
THE WORLD MISSION OF THE MAHATMA
by George Catlin
TRIBUTE TO GANDHI
by G. D.H.Cole
GANDHI
by The Rt. Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps
MAHATMA GANDHI