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Published by Jaico Publishing House A-2 Jash Chambers, 7-A Sir Phirozshah Mehta Road Fort, Mumbai - 400 001 [email protected] www.jaicobooks.com © Jaico Publishing House Complete & Unabridged MAHATMA GANDHI ISBN 81-7224-122-4 First Jaico Impression: 1957 Twenty-third Jaico Impression (Reformatted): 2010 No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. PREFACE TO THIS EDITION It was my desire to re-edit this volume and present it to Gandhi on his eightieth birthday, October 2, 1949. Fates decreed otherwise, and it has now become a memorial volume. “No country but India and no religion but Hinduism could have given birth to a Gandhi,” said the editorial in the London Times on the day after his death. It is true that we see in Gandhi the qualities we regard as characteristic of India, i.e. characteristic of India at its inspired best. Yet he belonged by right to humanity’s greatest of all time. Asia has awakened under the touch of Europe, and Europe, in its present disordered and puzzled condition, is looking towards the East. To a world which is being shattered by man’s selfi sh error and intolerance, which is questioning the divine nature of the human spirit, Gandhi’s message of the life of God is the soul of man and of the way of non-violence in human conduct is of supreme value. In this hour of crisis India is proud to have made such an imperishable contribution. A few extracts from the many and varied tributes to Gandhi after his death are reprinted in Appendix II. S.R. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION Owing to the distracted condition of the world-a war in the East and a near-war in Europe-and my absence from India since the end of last year, it has not been possible to get together all the persons who would have been glad to join in this world tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his seventieth birthday. The different essays and refl ections, each with its individual character, might be expected to make the book uneven and disconnected, but I hope that it has not done so. Almost every page is knit together by a central and never-forgotten theme, the challenge and message of Gandhi to the contemporary world. By general admission something is wrong with it. We are living in a singular moment of history, a moment of crisis, in the literal sense of the word. In every branch of our activity, material and spiritual, we seem to have arrived at a critical turning-point. Those who have surveyed the scene have given us different answers about the cause and cure of our ailing civilization. Gandhi tells us that we, who constitute the social order, are the disease and we must change, if civilization is to improve. Those who read these pages will be impressed by the fundamental unity between Gandhi’s theory and practice, the exquisite harmony of his life and work, which is the very essence of sincerity. It marks him out as one of the outstanding personalities, not only of our time but of all time. The contributions are arranged in alphabetical order. A few of Gandhi’s most distinctive utterances which are of more than local and temporary importance are brought together in an Appendix. The Editor thanks Mr. Stephen Hobhouse for his kindness in reading the proofs. S.R. Contents introduction MAHATMA GANDHI: AN ESTIMATE by Horace G. Alexander THE TRIBUTE OF A FRIEND by C. F. Andrews THE ESSENCE OF GANDHIJI by George S. Arundale THE SERVANT OF INDIA by Bishop V. S. Azariah GANDHI, AS BRIDGE AND RECONCILER by Ernest Barker “A LIGHT UPON HIS NAME” by Lawrence Binyon “A WAY OF LIVING” by Mrs. Pearl S. Buck MAHATMA by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy TWO MEETINGS WITH GANDHI by Lionel Curtis GANDHI AND THE CONGRESS by Bhagavan Das GANDHI’S STATESMANSHIP by Albert Einstein GANDHIJI AS A SOCIAL SCIENTIST AND SOCIAL INVENTOR by Richard B. Gregg THE HOUR AND THE MAN by Gerald Heard M. K. GANDHI : APOSTLE OF LIGHT AND TRUTH-FORCE by Carl Heath THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GANDHI FOR THE OUTLOOK OF A CHRISTIAN PACIFIST by Stephen Hobhouse ON FREEDOM AND BELONGING by W. E. Hocking THE NATURE OF GANDHI’S GREATNESS by John Haynes Holmes A SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBUTE by R. F. Alfred Hoernle GANDHI IN SOUTH AFRICA by Jan H. Hofmeyer GANDHI AND THE FUTURE OF PACIFISM by Laurence Housman GANDHI’S SATYAGRAHA AND THE WAY OF THE CROSS by John S. Hoyland AN INDIAN STATESMAN’S TRIBUTE by Sir Mirza M. Ismail THE AUTHORITY OF DETACHMENT AND MORAL FORCE b y C . E. M. Joad MAHATMA GANDHI AND SOUL FORCE by Rufus M. Jones GANDHI’S ACHIEVEMENTS FOR THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH by A. Berriedale Keith GANDHI’S PLACE IN WORLD HISTORY by Count Hermann Keyserling A BIRTHDAY GREETING by George Lansbury GANDHI’S FAITH AND INFLUENCE by John Macmurray THE NEED OF A LIFE INSTILLED WITH UNITY by Don Salvador de Madariaga THE POWER OF NON-VIOLENCE by Miss Ethel Mannin GANDHI AND THE CHILD by Dr. Maria Montessori THE EVOLUTION OF MR.GANDHI by Arthur Moore THE HINDU IDEA OF TRUTH by J.H. Muirhead GANDHI’S SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY by Gilbert Murray A VISIT FROM THE FAR EAST by Yone Noguchi GANDHI IN HIS MANY ASPECTS by B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya GANDHI’S MESSAGE TO THE WHOLE WORLD by Miss Maude D. Petre THE WISDOM OF GANDHIJI by Hy. S. L. Polak THE TRIUMPH OF THE SPIRIT by Llewelyn Powys HOMAGE FROM CHINA by M. Quo Tai Chi A STATESMAN IN BEGGAR’S GARB by Sir Abdul Qadir INDIA’S DEBT TO GANDHI by Rajendra Prasad THE FOOL OF GOD by Reginald Reynolds HOMAGE FROM A MAN OF THE WEST TO GANDHI by Romain Rolland AN ENGLISHWOMAN’S FAITH by Miss Maude Royden THE FRUITS OF TRUE LEADERSHIP by Lord Samuel IMPRESSIONS FROM THE ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE by Lord Sankey A GREAT PROPHET OF HINDUISM by D. S. Sarma THE GREAT LITTLE MAHATMA by Mrs. Clare Sheridan GANDHI’S POLITICAL METHOD by J. C. Smuts THE POET’S VERDICT by Rabindranath Tagore GANDHI : A CHARACTER STUDY by Edward Thompson THE PATH OF SATYAGRAHA by Srimati Sophia Wadia GANDHI’S FAST FOR HINDU-MUSLIM UNITY by Bishop Foss Westcott MAHATMA GANDHI AND AGGRESSIVE PACIFISM by Jack C. Winslow REFLECTIONS ON MR. GANDHI’S LEADERSHIP by H.G.Wood GANDHI—AFTER FORTY-SEVEN YEARS by Sir Francis Younghusband PATRIOTISM AND PUBLIC SPIRIT by Sir Alfred Zimmern THANKS TO GANDHI by Arnold Zweig LETTERS from Lord Halifax, Upton Sinclair, A. H. Compton MEMORIAL SECTION INTRODUCTION by S. Radhakrishnan GANDHI, THE MARTYR by Vera Brittain THE WORLD MISSION OF THE MAHATMA by George Catlin TRIBUTE TO GANDHI by G. D.H.Cole GANDHI by The Rt. Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps MAHATMA GANDHI
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