Gandhi Before Gandhi

SR No.: 007501
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bipin Doshi, Priti Shah
Publisher: Jain Academy Educational Research Center Promotion Trust Mumbai
Publication Year: 2009
Total Pages: 198
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & History
File Size: 34 MB

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GANDHI BEFORE GANDHI
- FROM HON. E. B. SHERMAN, - Master in Chancery of the United States Circuit Court
He has spent his time since the close of the parliament travelling about, lecturing and studying the industrial progress of this country, and especially the public school system. He is greatly impressed with the fact that in this land the poorest child has educational facilities equal to the richest. There are many fine schools in India, but the fee is so high that the poor cannot take advantage of them.
"The Congress of Religions drew to Chicago several of the brightest and most interesting Oriental thinkers and scholars. The one person that has ever been my pleasure to meet: among them is Mr. V. R. Gandhi, A lawyer of Bombay, India."
The Rochester Herald, Oct. 3, 1894 ILLUSTRATED LECTURE ON INDIA
"It has rarely, if ever, been my good fortune to meet a man whose reading and culture have been so wide and varied, and who, within him, has so sweet, sincere and teachable a spirit as Mr. Gandhi."
Mr. Virchand R. Gandhi, of Bombay, India, delivered an interesting and instructive lecture before the public school pupils in Free Academy hall last evening. The speaker gave a clear description of the customs and habits of the people of India. He presented many very interesting stereopticon views of the principal cities, the Elephanta and other caves, occupied by monks. The pictures showed the excellent work executed in ancient times. Altogether, these lectures are instructive to both, old and young, and should be seen and heard all over America,
- FROM REV. ADDISON PARKERPastor, Leading Baptist Church, La Porte, Ind, Pastor's Study, Limporte, Ind., Dec. 2, 1893
During the meeting of the Parliament of Religions at Chicago, I had the pleasure of listening to Mr. Gandhi's address upon the "Jains" of India, and also of a brief personal conversation with him. He impressed me as one of the brainiest and most stirring of the representative of the Far East. I know of no one except him from whom I would prefer to hear facts concerning the life and thought of the great people he represents.
Addison Parker
- FROM REV. R. A. WHITE, CHICAGO,
6550, Lafayette Ave, Chicago, II.
I consider Mr.Gandhi one of the best equipped of the many scholarly men who represented the various religions of India in the recent Parliament of Religions. A public lecture given by him in my church was, in my opinion, a most scholarly production, both in matter and form, and showed a thorough grasp of Oriental philosophy. Mr. Gandhi has a fine command of the English tongue, and is altogether a most interesting man in every way.
R.A. WHITE