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Mahatma Gandhi has done more than any other person of history to reveal that social problems can be solved without resorting to primitive methods of violence. In this sense he is more than a saint of India. He belongs — as they said of Abraham Lincoln — to the ages. In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi’s method of non-violence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr stands next to a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi in his office in 1966.(Bob Fitch Photography Archive, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries) Watch: From HT Archives: A tribute by Martin Luther King, Jr to Mahatma Gandhi The Gandhian influence in some way still speaks to the conscience of the world as nations grapple with international problems. If we fail, on an international scale, to follow the Gandhian principle of non-violence, we may end up by destroying ourselves through the misuse of our own instruments. The choice is no longer between violence and non-violence. It is now either non-violence or non-existence. Oppressed people can deal with oppression in three ways. ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Fifty years ago at the beginning of America’s civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. went to India to walk in the footsteps of one of his heroes, Mohandas Gandhi, who had led India’s successful struggle for independence from Britain. Dr. King was strongly influenced by Gandhi’s teachings of nonviolent resistance. Recently, Dr. King’s son and many civil rights veterans revisited India to honor both King and Gandhi. Fred de Sam Lazaro was there. FRED DE SAM LAZARO: The delegation was a who’s who of the civil rights era, among them John Lewis, Andrew Young, as well as Martin Luther King III retracing the steps of his iconic namesake who’d come 50 years ago to pay homage at this shrine to Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi. MARTIN LUTHER KING, III (speaking to group): My dad said that he came to many countries around the world as a tourist but came to India as a pilgrim. DE SAM LAZARO: His father’s visit to India may be a little known footnote from an eventful period in American history. But it was a pivotal event for the leader of the civil rights movement. Dr. CLAYBORNE CARSON (Historian, Stanford University): It really allowed him to get his credentials as a Gandhian, which was very important to him. He saw himself as a follower of Gandhi, someone who had learned a great deal from Gandhi. So going to India was crucial for him because he felt that he would be judged by Gandhi’s followers and that they would understand him to be someone who was carrying...

G. Ramachandran, a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, served as the secretary of the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi (Gandhi National Memorial Fund), which co-sponsored Martin Luther King’s 1959 India trip. King thanked Ramachandran for his hospitality during his trip to India, writing that Ramachandran’s interpretations of Gandhi “left an indelible imprint on my thinking” ( Papers 5:212). Born in 1904, in Perumthanni, Kerala, India, Ramachandran graduated from the Visva-Bharati at Santiniketan in 1925. As a disciple of Gandhi, Ramachandran helped lead the salt march in Tamil Nadu and the movement against the treatment of untouchables. In 1947 Ramachandran founded the Gandhigram at Madurai, a rural college based on Gandhian principles. On 27 December 1958 Ramachandran wrote King, inviting him and Coretta Scott King to spend a month in India. “We in India have watched with sympathy and admiration the nonviolent movements of the Negroes in America to achieve their full equality, in law and in spirit,” Ramachandran wrote. “It would be good if you could share with the Indian people your own experiences and thoughts,” and “study how Mahatma Gandhi evolved the techniques of peaceful action to solve innumerable social and national problems in India” ( Papers 4:553). King accepted the invitation, visiting India in February and March 1959. King and his party dined with Ramachandran in New Delhi on 6 March. King remained in contact with Ramachandran for several years after his trip to India. In 1961 R...

Gandhi was one of the most photographed men on the planet in his time — a symbol of pacifism, an inspiration to leaders such as Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, a celebrated father-figure to his countrymen. As he continues to be edified through art and sculpture, his body, ideas, and politics continue to inspire thousands of artists in India and the world. With the Mahatma as their muse, these artists have peppered the country’s streets, universities, Government offices, public places, railway stations, galleries and beyond with their representation of him. The author Prof Sumathi Ramaswamy Sumathi Ramaswamy, James B Duke Professor of History and International Comparative Studies Chair at Duke University, North Carolina, and president, American Institute of Indian Studies, gathers these forms — photographs, artworks and sculptures of Gandhi — in Gandhi In The Gallery - The Art of Disobedience (published by Roli Books). Sumathi was born in Chennai, a city that continues to be the centre of her research. For the book, she met artists from all over India and consulted archives across India, as well as at the British Library, London. In an email interview, Sumathi discusses how the book came to be. Edited excerpts: How does the book help the reader ‘see’ the Mahatma when he is visible everywhere? One of the epigraphs of the book by French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard alerts us to how art has the capacity to bring the submerged to the fore, and trigger new thought an...

Threads & More Yarn on looms on display at NGMA. For an artist who did not believe in exhibiting his work, the show at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), that opens on September 17, is a spectacular. It surpasses what was done in 1996, when Upendra Maharathi’s work, donated from his personal collection, was first exhibited at NGMA. His daughter, Mahashweta, bequeathed whatever was left of his collection to the gallery. Sculptor and NGMA director general Adwaita Gadanayak has curated a grand collection exhibition in the newly refurbished galleries of the Jaipur House, using an assortment of artwork from the artist’s personal collection and from the formidable vaults of the Patna Museum. Born in a small village of Odisha in 1908, Maharathi joined the Government College of Art and Craft in 1925. The school helped him imbibe Western and indigenous techniques of art, craft and architecture. His creativity was embedded in the aesthetics of the new, unapologetically nationalist movement in Bengal that supported swadeshi values and recognised the resistive, anti-colonial potential of art. It was led by EB Havell and Abanindranath Tagore, who encouraged their students to revive traditional forms of Indian art. Maharathi’s artistic praxis was also aligned with the constructive aspects of Gandhi’s non-violent politics. Inspired by the panels drawn by Nandalal Bose for the Congress session at Haripura (1938), he volunteered to decorate the temporary township which was set up f...

Bob Fitch photography archive, © Stanford University Libraries Upon his death, Mohandas K. Gandhi was hailed by the London Times as “the most influential figure India has produced for generations” (“Mr. Gandhi”). Gandhi protested against racism in South Africa and colonial rule in India using nonviolent resistance. A testament to the revolutionary power of nonviolence, Gandhi’s approach directly influenced Martin Luther King, Jr., who argued that the Gandhian philosophy was “the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom ” ( Papers 4:478). King first encountered Gandhian ideas during his studies at Crozer Theological Seminary. In a talk prepared for George Davis’ class, Christian Theology for Today, King included Gandhi among “individuals who greatly reveal the working of the Spirit of God ” ( Papers 1:249). In 1950, King heard Mordecai Johnson, president of Howard University, speak of his recent trip to India and Gandhi’s nonviolent resistance techniques. King situated Gandhi’s ideas of nonviolent direct action in the larger framework of Christianity, declaring that “Christ showed us the way and Gandhi in India showed it could work ” (Rowland, “2,500 Here Hail Boycott Leader ”). He later remarked that he considered Gandhi to be “the greatest Christian of the modern world ” (King, 23 June 1962). Gandhi was born 2 October 1869, in Porbandar, in the western part of India, to Karamchand Gandhi, chief minister of Porbandar,...

PATNA: Bihar is one of the proud possessors of a panel of photographs of first march led by civil rights leader Martin Luther King from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 in US. It was called a demonstration. February 9 is the 50th anniversary of King's visit to India to study Mahatma Gandhi's teachings. Patna's lone "Gandhi Sangrahalaya" (Gandhi museum) has displayed this panel in its library, said its secretary and old Gandhian Razi Ahmad. Within 48 hours of the start of the movement, demonstrations in support of the marchers were held in 80 cities. Many of the nation's religious and lay leaders, including King, flew to Selma. King led a peaceful march from Selma to Montgomery. Congress responded to these events by enacting the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Ahmad said that it was presented to the library during the centenary celebrations of Gandhi. The picture of Martin Luther King, jr, in his office with the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi drawn by Bihar's famous Gandhian artist Upendra Maharathi is also displayed at the Sangrahalaya. The picture was presented by Pundit Nehru to Martin Luther King, jr, during his 1959 visit. As a gesture of symbolic significance a special US congressional delegation is visiting India along with King's eldest son Martin Luther King III to follow in the footsteps of American civil rights leader in India. In Selma, African Americans made up almost half the population, but only two per cent were registered voters. Discrimination and intimidation tactics a...