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Virchand Raghavji Gandhi
A Profile Certain personalities leave indelible footprints on the sands of time; their legacy is not affected by the constantly revolving wheel of time.
At the World Religions Conference held in Chicago, U.S.A., in 1893, America, and the west, for the first time heard the determined, spirited, resonant voice of ancient India, and the message of Indian philosophy and culture. Two Indian delegates participating at this conference awakened the western world to the spiritual heritage of India. One of these was Swami Vivekananda whose success in the World Religions Conference of Chicago is fresh in everyone's memory today. But the contribution of other Indian delegate to the same Conference, Virchand Raghavji Gandhi, the representative of the Jain religion, has a claim to equal attention by virtue of the success he achieved at the Conference and also by his work as a religious thinker.
In 1893, more than three thousand delegates of different nations and religions had assembled at the conference. The conference was inaugurated on 11th September, 1893, and Virchand Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda, P. C. Majumdar and other eminent scholars from India were present as distinguished participants. The aim of this religious conference was to impart to the world the knowledge of different religions, and to promote a feeling of fraternity between followers of diverse religious
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