Virchad R Gandhi A Gandhi before Gandhi

SR No.: 249055
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bipin Doshi, Pankaj Hingarh
Publisher: Bipin Doshi, Pankaj Hingarh
Total Pages: 12
Language: English
Classification: Article & Biography
File Size: 215 KB

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kept alive by his disciples by founding with his friends Chief Justice Mahadev organizations whereas, it is a matter of Ranade and Sr. Narayan Chandavarkar. great pity that no attempt has been Ex-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made to keep alive VRG's memory!" (Congress president) with top Congress Today only 10% of VRG details are politician Vadilal Chitrabhuj Gandhi available due to a gap of 100 years. In visited VRG's house and met Dhiraj India nobody maintained a detailed his- Mohanlal Gandhi, the grandson of tory of VRG and his contribution to VRG (a key person of Hindu India and the Indian society."
Mahasabha, Mumbai) and paid As a reformer in the Western countries homage to VRG. he established the Gandhi Philosophical Virchand Gandhi lectured on the Society and the Society for the political and industrial outlook in India Education of
As a national figure he attended the a
- in Large Hall of Indian National Congress session William Science (SEWI) under
held in Pune as the representative of building on whose banner sev- the then Bombay province in 1895 and December 19, eral Indian women was an early leader of the Congress 1898. His another went to the USA along with his friends Chief Justice
international parfor higher studies,
Mahadev Ranade and Sr. Narayan ticipation as all
Chandavarkar. the School of
India sole deleOriental Philosophy, and the Jain gate was at the international conferLiterature Society in London. He sentence of commerce in 1899 where he Rs 40,000 and a shipload of grains from lectured on the trade relations between the USA to India during the worst the USA and India. famine of 1896-97.
Modern research about VRG reveals As a national figure he attended the that at several instances Mahatma Gandhi Indian National Congress session held was misunderstood as VR Gandhi. in Pune as the representative of the In a June 13, 1931 letter, Mahatma then Bombay province in 1895 and was Gandhi clarifies to Miss Emelia Mac an early leader of the Congress along Bean of Chicago when she mistook him
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
- Aldous Huxley
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