Book Title: Gandhi Before Gandhi
Author(s): Bipin Doshi, Priti Shah
Publisher: Jain Academy Educational Research Center Promotion Trust Mumbai
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GANDHI BEFORE GANDHI
These inbuilt and inevitable forces all over the world were the seeds which led to "Gathering of religious heads from world over to begin the interfaith understanding".
1893' - Historic year for India
Year 1893 was very important and historic year for India. It was the year when Vivekananda and Virchand Gandhi went for the first Parliament of World Religion to showcase the subtle Indian spirituality and glorious Indian civilization to the West. Mr Arvind Ghosh, the great Indian sage, also came back to India from Britain and had emerged as the great enemy to British. Young M. K. Gandhi also went to Africa and had the first encounter with the British government on racial discrimination. In the same year Annie Besant, an European lady started 'Theosophical society in India to study and advance the true spiritual and ethical values of Indian religions. Again this was the year when great patriotic figure, Lokmanya Tilak, started 'Sarvajanik Ganpati-Utsav' to awaken the integrity and unity of Indians for its proud history and culture. Continents apart, for America this was the 400th year of its discovery by Columbus.
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