Ebook: Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy Letters

In 1908, when Gandhi was pioneering his passive resistance experiments inSouth Africa, Tolstoy wrote A Letter To A Hindu. A Letter To A Hindu was a reply toC.R. Das, a revolutionary representative of Indians in Europe, who had challengedTolstoy’s philosophy of non-resistance. Gandhi read A Letter To A Hindu and was sointrigued by it that he sought Tolstoy’s permission to publish the letter in SouthAfrica. Tolstoy wholeheartedly approved the project and also consented to have hiswritings translated into Indian dialects.To read the correspondence between Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy andfathom the thinking of these two literary giants is to capture the common threadsrunning through Eastern and Western thought. Too often, we forget the fundamentalunity of all religions as we plumb for their differences. [C:UsersMicrosoftDocumentsCalibre Library]