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The March of India. March-April 1949

1949

3 THE MARCH OF INDIA"11 Fenner Brockway THE uniqueness of Gandhi was his combination of the eternal light of the seer and the saint with the temporary torch of the statesman. [...] For him the fight against the oppressive policy of the Boers in relation to the coloured races of South Africa against the tyranny which kept the untouchables in India in a position of social inferiority and against the British Empire which held India in bondage was not primarily political or social but merely the affirmation of the doctrine of the worth of the individual. [...] WHEN Harriet Beecher Stowe the author of Uncle Tom' s Cabin addressed a prudential warning to the American people of the signals of the tempest on the eve of the Civil War she also appealed to their conscience : He shall appear as a swift witness against those that oppress the hireling in his wages the widow and the fatherless and that turn aside the stranger in his right : and He shall break i [...] The secret of this stability and longevity is what we can give to the world and that secret can be summed up in the four fundamental truths which form the basis of the Vedanta philosophy : the existence of a " Divine Ground " the ability of man to acquire divine knowledge by direct intuition the ability of man to identify himself completely with the divine and a recognition that the true end an [...] This doctrine is the sheet anchor of Hinduism and in making a gift of it to the world India touches on the idea of an inner force of will and pesonality and gives to human values a beyond and cutting through the tangle of the rational traditions of Western philosophy interprets moral life as not merely confined to the fulfilment of duty but as something that passes over to a spirit of service
humanities general
Pages
76
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120260
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i S. Mohan view
Frontmatter
1-2 S. Mohan view
Symposium Gandhism as I Understand it
3-17 S. Mohan view
Mahatmaji
18-18 G.L. Leszczynski view
The Messege of India
19-20 R.L. Mehta view
The Indian Institute of Science
21-23 Jnan Ghosh view
Our Diplomats Dr. Syud Hossain
24-25 M. Ray view
Modern Painters
26-29 Avadhanam Sitaraman view
Sonnets
30-30 Serapia Devi view
Autumn
31-31 Sumitranandan Pant view
The Struggle
32-32 Sumitranandan Pant view
The music of India
33-35 Narayana Menon view
The Press in India
36-40 S. Mohan view
Modern Bengali Short Story
41-43 Amalendu Gupta view
Dr Pattabhi Sitaramayya
44-47 A.S. Raman view
Paper Making in India
48-50 S.C. Laharry view
Book Reviews
51-69 S. Mohan view
Backmatter
i-vi S. Mohan view

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