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229 / जैनों का संक्षिप्त इतिहास, दर्शन, व्यवहार एवं वैज्ञानिक आधार
has second largest muslim population in the world. Kashmir is symbol of our secularism. India had more than once muslim President of India, in a way highest respectable office of the head of the state, enjoying sweeping powers in emergency.
The world equally owes much to Gandhi. Forty years ago Martin Luther King had a non-violent march in America for the rights of the blacks .Today his dream came true. There is a black President of U.S.A. enjoying the second term and the greatest powers in the world. Racial-segregation has been wiped out in South-Africa where Gandhi had his first lesson in this regard and taught the world a way out from the philosophy of 'tooth for tooth' and 'nail for nail'i.e. against the scourge of nuclear wars.
