HISTORY
MODERN INDIA
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Bertrand Russell
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Marshal Tito
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Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Among the above names, Khan Abdul Ghaffar is a follower of Gandhi’s philosophy. He is also known by the name Seemant Gandhi, Baccha Khan, and Badshah Khan. He is a political leader and a spiritual personality. He also believed in nonviolence as a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
Detailed explanation-2: -Truth, nonviolence, Sarvodaya and Satyagraha and their significance constitute Gandhian philosophy and are the four pillars of Gandhian thought.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tolstoy and Gandhi corresponded regularly. Both had similar views on truth and morality and both had the same heroes-Buddha, Socrates and Mohammed. Tolstoy’s book ‘The Kingdom of God is within you’ overwhelmed Gandhi.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gandhian philosophy related to resource conservation was presented by Schumacher in his book Small is Beautiful. He placed the greedy and selfish individuals and exploitative nature of modern technology as the root cause for resource depletion at the global level.
Detailed explanation-5: -Gandhi’s philosophy directly influenced King, who first employed strategies of nonviolent direct action in the 1955 to 1956 Montgomery bus boycott. In 1959, King traveled to India with his wife, Coretta Scott King, and Lawrence D.