Gandhi And Jainism

SR No.: 007798
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shugan C Jain
Publisher: International School for Jain Studies
Publication Year: 2017
Total Pages: 339
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 120 MB

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Amendment Bill of 1894 limited Indians political representation. In August 1906, the Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance was signed into law in the Transvaal. It was a humiliating and discriminating law forcing Indians in the Transvaal to register with the 'registrar of Asiatics,' submit to physical examinations, provide fingerprints, and carry a registration certificate at all times. Otherwise, Indians and other 'Asiatics,' as they were called could be fined, imprisoned, or deported. It became known as the 'Black Act'.
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Satya, P 163-165; .. to die but not to submit to the law.."
20 Gandhi referred to this in an article "Neither a saint nor a politician" in YI, dated May 12, 1920; See Romain Rolland, MGRR, op.cit., p.10
Satya, www.gandhiheritageportal.org, p507-509
Satya, www.gandhiheritageportal.org, p511
My.Ex. 1, pp 100
See Appendix I. Inequality, exploitation, discrimination, hurting, causing pain, hate, intolerance, revengefulness are manifestations of violence.
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Shriman Narayan (ed.), The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol.6 (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1997), p.97
My.Ex.1, page 245-246
Satya, www.gandhiheritageportal.org, Pp 146-47
Appendix I for details
Gandhi himself tells in his quite humorous way of his experiences in prison in a curious article printed in, M. K. Gandhi, Speeches and Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, (Madras: G A Natesan and company, 1933), pp.152-178; See, Romain Rolland, MGRR, op.cit, p.8
CWMG 32:1-13, Preface to "Shrimad Rajchandra", 5 Nov. 1926, "I entered into correspondence with every person in India in whom I had some trust, Raychandbhai being the chief among them. [Vide "Gandhiji's Q.s to Rajchandra and his Replies", CW 32:593-602, letter accompanying Rajchandra's replies is dt. 20.10.1894.] I had already been introduced to him and a close bond had grown between us. I had respect for him, and so I decided to get from him everything he could give. The result was that I gained peace of
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