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</ref> The letter was written in response to two letters sent by Das, seeking support from the | </ref> The letter was written in response to two letters sent by Das, seeking support from the Russian author and thinker for India's independence from [[British Raj|colonial rule]]. The letter was published in the Indian newspaper ''[[Free Hindustan]]''. The letter caused the young [[Mahatma Gandhi|Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]] to write to Tolstoy to ask for advice and for permission to reprint the ''Letter'' in Gandhi's own South African newspaper, ''[[Indian Opinion]]'', in 1909. Gandhi was living in South Africa at the time and just beginning his activist career. He then translated the letter himself, from the original English copy sent to India, into his native [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]].<ref name=gandhi/> | ||
In "A Letter to a Hindu", Tolstoy argued that only through the principle of love could the [[Indian people]] gain independence from colonial rule. Tolstoy saw the law of love espoused in all the world's religions, and he argued that the individual, [[nonviolent]] application of the law of love in the form of [[protest]]s, [[Strike action|strikes]], and other forms of peaceful resistance were the only alternative to violent revolution. These ideas ultimately proved to be successful in 1947 in the culmination of the [[Indian independence movement]]. | In "A Letter to a Hindu", Tolstoy argued that only through the principle of love could the [[Indian people]] gain independence from colonial rule. Tolstoy saw the law of love espoused in all the world's religions, and he argued that the individual, [[nonviolent]] application of the law of love in the form of [[protest]]s, [[Strike action|strikes]], and other forms of peaceful resistance were the only alternative to violent revolution. These ideas ultimately proved to be successful in 1947 in the culmination of the [[Indian independence movement]]. | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Leo Tolstoy bibliography]] | |||
* [[Tirukkural]] | * [[Tirukkural]] | ||
* [[Christian anarchism]] | * [[Christian anarchism]] | ||