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Author : Mahatma Gandhi,graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015014439924
Author : Leo Tolstoy,M. K. Gandhi
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788075833167
A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das on 14 December 1908 in response to two letters sent by Das, seeking support from the famous Russian author and thinker, for India's independence from British colonial rule. The letter was published in the Indian newspaper Free Hindustan and caused the young Mohandas Gandhi to write to the world-famous Tolstoy to ask for advice and for permission to reprint the Letter in Gandhi's own South African newspaper, Indian Opinion, in 1909. Mohandas Gandhi was stationed in South Africa at the time and just beginning his lifelong activist career. He then translated the letter himself, from the original English copy sent to India, into his native Gujarati. "Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby" (1896) was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Ernest Howard Crosby on "Non-Resistance" and must be read along with "A Letter to a Hindu" to understand the former's philosophy in a better light. Table of Contents: Introduction: Biography of Leo Tolstoy A Letter to a Hindu Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby Correspondences with Gandhi Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877) which are often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.
Author : Taraknath Das
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Passive resistance
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110904518
Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008824776
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788726892437
How many letters can be claimed to have been as influential as this? Leo Tolstoy's 'Letter to a Hindu' was originally sent to the Indian revolutionary and scholar Tarak Nath Das. Its circulation saw it spotted by a young Mahatma Gandhi, who was living in South Africa and printed it in his newspaper, Indian Opinion. In the letter, Tolstoy argues that only love would enable the Indian people to gain independence from Britain. It helped Gandhi form his revolutionary ideas around non-violence, which eventually saw India freed from colonial rule. 'A Letter to a Hindu' actually includes a foreword from Gandhi, who became firm friends with the Russian author. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and one of the world’s greatest novelists. Tolstoy’s major works include 'War and Peace' (1865–69) and 'Anna Karenina' (1875–77), two of the greatest novels of all time and pinnacles of realist fiction. Beyond novels, he wrote many short stories and later in life also essays and plays. In the years following the publication of 'War and Peace' Tolstoy - who was born to a Russian aristocratic family - had a spiritual awakening that made him a committed Christian anarchist and pacifist. His philosophy inspired Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Author : Jonathan Kis-Lev
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1546467289
In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from hundreds of letters, diary entries and original sources, prize-winning author JONATHAN KIS-LEV tells the fascinating, untold story of the mentorship between Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi. This unlikely friendship between the 40-year-old Indian lawyer and the 80-year-old Russian writer led to the end of British India and set the stage for the American Civil Rights Movement and Mandela's end of South African Apartheid. It all began with one shy lawyer, Mahatma Gandhi, who dared writing to his long-time guru, Leo Tolstoy. Why Tolstoy chose to respond to the yet-to-be-known lawyer, and how their friendship developed is unveiled in this riveting historical novel. Seven years in the writing, Dear Tolstoy Yours Gandhi is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer "whose understanding of human psychology never fails to thrill" (The Reviewer). "A triumphant, controversial, and fascinating plunge into a mentor-mentee relationship . . . Irresistible."-THE REVIEWER "Gorgeous . . . Moves with the pace of a thriller."-THIS WEEK BOOK EXCERPT(printed with permission): During the following hour Tatiana went through all of the important letters. Finally, there was one more. "This is," she took the letter and looked at her father, "from one Hindu-" Tolstoy's eyes lit up, "Mr. Tarak? The editor of the 'Free Hindustan'? Finally, I've been waiting-" "No, Papa, someone else, one"-she looked at the letter-"one called Gandhi." "I never heard of him." "Well he asks for permission to reprint what you have sent to Mr. Tarak. Can I send him an approval?" Tolstoy mumbled, "Who is he? How many copies does he want printed?" "He is a Hindu, from"-she glanced at the letter-"South Africa. He wants to produce twenty thousand copies. Papa, can I send him approval-" "Twenty thousand copies?" Tolstoy's eyes grew larger, "That is excellent! What else does he write?" Tatiana sighed. "Papa, I'm tired." "I am tired too, Tanya, but this is important! What does he write?" Tatiana read, "Dear Sir, I take the liberty of inviting your attention to what has been going on in South Africa for nearly three years. There is in that colony a British Indian population of nearly 13,000. These Indians have for several years labored under the various legal disabilities. The prejudice against color and in some respect against Asiatics is intense in that colony. It is largely due, so far as Asiatics are concerned, to trade jealousy." "Mmmm...." Tolstoy hummed, "interesting. Go on." Tatiana kept reading, "The climax was reached three years ago, with a law which I and many others considered to be degrading and calculated to unman those to whom it was applicable." "Law," Tolstoy muttered, "probably some discrimination disguised as 'law'...." Tatiana nodded and kept reading, "I felt that submission to law of this nature was inconsistent with the spirit of true religion. I and some of my friends were and still are firm believers in the doctrine of non-resistance to evil." Tolstoy leaned forward, "Non-resistance to evil? This is how he writes it?" Tatiana nodded. A small smirk appeared on her father's face. "Who is this Gandhi?" END OF EXCERPT "A compelling, page-turning narrative . . . Re-examines history from a fresh, psychological point of view." -THE SENDER REPORT "Painstakingly researched, beautifully hewn, compulsively readable . . . Not to be missed." -DER TAG INCLUDING: INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR, BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION IDEAS AND MORE INSIDE!
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000064803
In "A Letter to a Hindu", Tolstoy argued that only through the principle of love could the Indian people free themselves from colonial British rule. These ideas ultimately proved to be successful in 1947 in the culmination of the Indian Independence Movement. In 1908, Indian revolutionary Taraknath was wrote to Leo Tolstoy, by then one of the most famous public figures in the world, asking for the author’s support in India’s independence from British colonial rule. On December 14, Tolstoy, who had spent the last twenty years seeking the answers to life’s greatest moral questions, was moved to reply in a long letter, which was published in the Indian newspaper Free Hindustan. Passed from hand to hand, the missive finally made its way to the young Mahatma Gandhi, whose career as a peace leader was just beginning in South Africa. He wrote to Tolstoy asking for permission to republish it in his own South African newspaper, Indian Opinion. Tolstoy’s letter was later published in English under the title A Letter to a Hindu.
Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000367121
Some works are translations from Gujarati.
Author : Leo Tolstoy,Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530591546
"A Letter to a Hindu" (also known as "A Letter to a Hindoo") was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das on 14 December 1908. The letter was written in response to two letters sent by Das, seeking support from the famous Russian author and thinker, for India's independence from British colonial rule. The letter was published in the Indian newspaper Free Hindustan. The letter caused the young Mohandas Gandhi to write to the world-famous Tolstoy to ask for advice and for permission to reprint the Letter in Gandhi's own South African newspaper, Indian Opinion, in 1909. Mohandas Gandhi was stationed in South Africa at the time and just beginning his lifelong activist career. He then translated the letter himself, from the original English copy sent to India, into his native Gujarati.
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798210397935
"A Letter to a Hindu" (also known as "A Letter to a Hindoo") was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das on 14 December 1908. The letter was written in response to two letters sent by Das, seeking support from the Russian author and thinker for India's independence from colonial rule. The letter was published in the Indian newspaper Free Hindustan. The letter caused the young Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to write to Tolstoy to ask for advice and for permission to reprint the Letter in Gandhi's own South African newspaper, Indian Opinion, in 1909. Gandhi was living in South Africa at the time and just beginning his activist career. He then translated the letter himself, from the original English copy sent to India, into his native Gujarati.
Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : India
ISBN : WISC:89095723573
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Government, Resistance to
ISBN : 1913724018
Dated the 14th of December 1908, A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das, a Bengali revolutionary and scholar, in response to a request for support for India's separation from British rule, which argued that the Indian people should seek to free themselves from British rule through non-violent protests and strikes, and other forms of peaceful resistance.The letter soon gained international attention after it was published in the Free Hindustan, and it came to the attention of the young Mahatma Gandhi. Drawing on a variety of sources, cultures and teachings, Tolstoy's letter was instrumental in forming Gandhi's views on non-violent resistance - as Gandhi himself acknowledges in his introduction: 'To me, as a humble follower of that great teacher whom I have long looked upon as one of my guides, it is a matter of honour to be connected with the publication of his letter'.
Author : Martin Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983-06
Category : India
ISBN : UCSC:32106006807918
Martin Green relates how two dissimilar figures from "distant" traditions, Leo Tolstoy and Gandhi, gradually reached the same imperative: utter renunciation of the imperialistic, war-like modern Western world system. --from vendor description.
Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307357946
The first volume of a magisterial biography: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential--and controversial--men in modern history. Here is a revelatory work of biography that takes us from Gandhi's birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his 2 years as a student in London, and his 2 decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa. Ramachandra Guha has uncovered a myriad of previously untapped documents, including: private papers of Gandhi's contemporaries and co-workers; contemporary newspapers and court documents; the writings of Gandhi's children; secret files kept by British Empire functionaries. Using this wealth of material in a brilliantly nuanced narrative, Guha describes the social, political and personal worlds in which Gandhi began his journey to become the modern era's most important and influential political actor. And Guha makes clear that Gandhi's work in South Africa--far from being a mere prelude to his accomplishments in India--was profoundly influential on his evolution as a political thinker, social reformer and beloved leader.
Author : Leo Tolstoy,M K Gandhi,Damian Westfall
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798504699974
1908 Tarak Nath Das, an Indian revolutionary and editor of "Free Hindustan", a magazine published to further the efforts of emancipating the Indians from the British colonial rule, sent Leo Tolstoy two issues of "Free Hindustan" and a letter explaining the oppression and subjugation of the people of India by the English and asked the world famous writer for advice on the best way to achieve freedom from the minority who enslaved 200,000,000 people and on December 14th, 1908, Tolstoy began writing what would be inevitably entitled "A Letter to a Hindu" in Russian, but it was soon translated into English by an anonymous writer and in 1909 Das published "A Letter to a Hindu" in an edition of "Free Hindustan", his magazine. A young lawyer turned activist who worked nonstop for the emancipation of India named Gandhi read Tolstoy's "A Letter to A Hindu" in "Free Hindustan" while living in South Africa where he resided with a population of 30,000 other Indians who were being oppressed and subjugated by the white Christians in the Transvaal province of South Africa. Gandhi was already a follower of Tolstoy after he read and was radicalized by Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of GOD is Within You" and immediately Gandhi knew he wanted to publish "A Letter to a Hindu" in his own magazine "Indian Opinion" that he was printing and distributing from Transvaal. And so, the young Gandhi wrote to Tolstoy to make sure that Tolstoy actually wrote the letter and asked Tolstoy if he, Gandhi Himself, could translate "A Letter to A Hindu" into the Indian dialect Guajarati and this began a correspondence of six letters between Gandhi and Tolstoy which concluded with Tolstoy's death in 1910 at 82 years old. The story of India's nonviolent revolution led by Gandhi is amazing and inspiring, but the reader of "A Letter to a Hindu" doesn't need to know all the details of the Indian problem presented by Tarak Nath, they are not necessary, because the Indian situation is used by Tolstoy only as an example. It is the theories presented by Tolstoy that are the guts of the letter, and at its center is the reason for publishing these texts, Tolstoy's thoughts on the concept of nonresistance to evil by violence (Matthew 5:38-42, Luke 6:27-31) which includes giving good to evil, not retaliating, loving your enemies, and most importantly the order from Christ that if someone slaps your face you should then turn your face so they can hit the other side as well. This is usually referred to as "to turn the other cheek" and it is roundly negated and discarded by most pastors and Christians, but this is a direct command from Christ that cannot be ignored or rejected, and this is the core of Tolstoy's ethics: Nonresistance to Evil by Violence.In this new documentary play by Damian Westfall the entire story and philosophy of the connection and interactions between Tolstoy and Gandhi are portrayed using their own words. The play is made up of primary sources including Tolstoy's essay A Letter to a Hindu, an introduction by Gandhi, the complete correspondences between Tolstoy and Gandhi and a new introduction and epilogue by the playwright. What's most significant is that this text of Tolstoy's A Letter to a Hindu is newly translated with all the other texts, the first new translation of these texts in decades.