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there for six months, learned Bengali, prepared his case against the factory, and ultimately got this verdict issued: "Sametshikhar is a place of Jain pilgrimage and nobody else has any right to interfere there." He got the factory to close down.
Virchand Gandhi
Shri Virchand Gandhi was a great social reformer at a very young age. At the very young age of 22, he wrote long essays to remove evil social customs and continuously fought against it and was successful in eradicating some of them.
Shri Virchand Gandhi sailed to USA along with Swami Vivekananda to attend the Parliament of World Religion Conference in 1893. He stayed in USA for about two years after the conference and gave lectures in cities such as Chicago, Boston, New York, and Washington. He also visited England, France, Germany and other places in Europe. In foreign countries he wore a long and loose kurta, a white shawl on his shoulder, a golden bordered Kathiawadi turban on his head, and country shoes. This external appearance bore the imprint of India. He delivered more than 535 lectures on Jainism, Yoga, Indian systems of philosophy, Indian culture, occultism, and spiritualism. He qualified as a Barrister in London at one of the Inns of the Court but did not use this qualification for monetary gain.
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