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Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi, born in 1869 in India, was a lawyer who became the leader of India’s nonviolent independence movement against British rule. Influenced by principles of truth and nonviolence, he led peaceful protests, including the Salt March and Quit India Movement. Gandhi’s philosophy of civil disobedience inspired global movements for justice. Though imprisoned multiple times, he remained committed to nonviolence. Assassinated in 1948, Gandhi is remembered as the “Father of the Nation” and a symbol of peace and resilience.
Signed M.K. Gandhi and dated February 25, 1937
In part: “I have your long letter of the 17th inst: I do not feel it is necessary to put any more of this controversy before the readers of Harijan. In the meantime so long as you consider even opposite verses in the four Gospels as apocryphal we must agree to differ.” Three words added to the text, “opposite verses in,” are in Gandhi’s hand.
Gandhi once said in relation to the Gospels, “Europe mistook the bold and brave resistance, full of wisdom, by Jesus of Nazareth for passive resistance, as if it was of the weak. As I read the New Testament for the first time, I detected no passivity, no weakness about Jesus as depicted in the four gospels.” Accompanied by the original envelope addressed to Professor A.S. Wadia.
