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Mahatma Gandhi's Mumbai Home

Mahatma Gandhi’s Mumbai Home

Late Indira Gandhi's words about Mahatma Gandhi, "More than his words, his life was the message", came alive as we accompanied Shareen Robin along the precincts of this tiny, history-ridden two-storied structure on Laburnum Road. Nestling in the quiet by-lanes of Gamdevi, Mani Bhavan brings the 'Mahatma'—Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—that much closer to us. This four-storey bungalow served as Gandhi's home from 1917 to 1934 and has since been converted into a museum dedicated to the Father of the Nation, who led a nation of 350 million to freedom with his non-violence movement.

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Gandhi Journal Article - II

Gandhi on Religion and Social Harmony

By Malabika Pande 

Abstract

Democracy and democratic norms such as civil rights, adult suffrage, political pluralism and secular politics, were the dominant themes in international politics till the middle of the twentieth century. Religion was not considered a political force potent enough to disturb democratic societies. But recent history has proved all that wrong. In India, the colonial period saw an aggregation of communal tension culminating in partition. The importance of religion and religious mobilization are now widely recognized as significant factors in national and international politics. Gandhi had anticipated this. After his return from South Africa in 1915 he committed himself to the pursuit of a kind of swaraj for India that went beyond mere political freedom and civil rights, and was marked by the inculcation of ideals of peace, brotherhood and social concord.

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