Maybank sharma biography of mahatma
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'He saw himself as a Sanatani Hindu': Jyotirmaya Sharma on Gandhi's life, work and philosophy of non-violence
When Nathuram Godse assassinated Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on 30 January, 1948, shortly after India freed itself from colonial rule, and Pakistan was created, Albert Einstein said, “Everyone concerned in the better future of mankind must be deeply moved by the tragic death of Mahatma Gandhi.
Maybank sharma biography of mahatma
He died as the victim of his own principles, the principle of nonviolence.”
How did Gandhi articulate this principle? Why did he live and die for it?
Jyotirmaya Sharma’s book Elusive Non-Violence: The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi’s Religion of Ahimsa, published by Westland, might offer some answers for readers who are seriously interested.
In the introduction, Sharma writes, “Ahimsa in Gandhi emerges as a fundamentally religious idea, with all the limitations that intensely religious ideals inevitably encounter.
To name only one, a concept so pre-eminently centred in religion dem