Ethnicity and Religious Heritage

Author(s): T U Mehta
Publisher: T U Mehta

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Anekantvad and Its Importance In Life Part-II
of violence and therefore if you can train the masses who suffer from injustice to adopt non-violent method of resistance, you are likely to succeed by invoking good side of the opponent and by making it difficult for him to function without the co-operation of the
masses.
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Gandhiji employed this method quite successfully in South Africa where he fought for the rights of Indians against the administration of Gen. Smuts for about two decade. It is quite interesting to know what Gen. Smuts, against whose rule Gandhi led his non violent sturggle, has subsequently said about his movement on his 70th birth anniversary. He said :
"It was my fate to be the antagonist of a man for whom even I had the highest respect. His activities at that time were trying to me. For him everything went according to plan. For me, the defender of law and order, there was the usual trying situation, the odium of carrying out a law, which had no public support, and finally the discomfiture when the law had to be repealed. For him it was a successful