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Damm, Alex. Gandhi in a Canadian Context: Relationships between Mahatma Gandhi and Canada, Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

Damm, A. (). Gandhi in a Canadian Context: Relationships between Mahatma Gandhi and Canada. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Damm, A. Gandhi in a Canadian Context: Relationships between Mahatma Gandhi and Canada. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Damm, Alex. Gandhi in a Canadian Context: Relationships between Mahatma Gandhi and Canada. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

Damm A. Gandhi in a Canadian Context: Relationships between Mahatma Gandhi and Canada. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press;

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- By Dr. Neeta Khandpekar*

Abstract

Gandhi's legacy is significant for both of them owing to have faced problems of separatism and secession in specific areas. Canada's accord of (though failed) was an act of political courage, an experiment at once educative and conciliatory which is perhaps the only way of fusing a multicultural society into a nation. Even today we read news headlines like "IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE MAHATMA, GLOBAL MAHATMA". And in fact Martin Luther King Jr, Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Adolfo Perez Esquivel were inspired by Gandhiji's philosophy and practice and have been awarded the Nobel Prize across the world. Gandhi is now a global icon and a mystical figure rolled into one. In the twentieth century Non-violence has achieved many successes. The American Civil Rights Movement of the 's led by Martin Luther King Jr. culminated in political rights for African-Americans. Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe when confronted with non-violent resistance, led by forces like Solidarity in Poland and Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia. In , a massive show of people's power toppled Ferdinand Marcos's dictatorship in the Philippines. The armies refused to fire on the people after being convinced by them - Photographs of girls offering roses to men manning the tanks are still etched in memory to support the pro-democracy movement. Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu played a major role in South Africa's relatively peaceful transition from apartheid to a democracy that granted blacks political rights. Esquivel an Argentinean was the founder of Peace and Justice, a pan-Latin American civil rights movement in the s that adopted non-violence as its credo at a time when the continent was gripped by violent conflict. This paper will focus on twenty first century issues especially in Canada and its solutions in Gandhian thought.

With Nations as with individuals the present is always dominated by the past. What Canada is today, wha

- George Paxton*

Abstract

Gandhi participated in or expressed his opinions on six war situations from the Anglo-Boer War to the Second World War. His views were not always consistent and he was criticised for this, particularly by western pacifists, including close colleagues. This arose from his multi-viewpoint position, where he opposed war personally but justified participation in war by others who fought for a just cause. A linked influence was his intense dislike of cowardliness and admiration of courageousness. His ideal, however, was the courageous satyagrahi and his expressed opinions moved during his lifetime to a firmer non-violent antiwar position.

GANDHI WAS NOTED for his inconsistency, or at least apparent inconsistency, on some important issues. This is true of caste, race and class issues which has left him open to attack or misinterpretation by a variety of critics down to the present time. This is true also of his expressed views and actions on the matter of war. This is important because of the prominence he gave to non-violence.

Gandhi was involved, either directly or indirectly, with several war situations - the Anglo-Boer War and the Bambatha revolt in South Africa; the First World War at its beginning and then towards its end; and the Second World War in Europe and in Asia. I intend to examine Gandhi’s stance in these diverse war situations, his consistencies and inconsistencies and the evolution of his ideas which I believe are revealed.

South African Conflicts

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrived at the port of Durban, Natal on 23 May The year-old barrister of the Inner Temple, London, having had a slow start to his legal career in India decided to take a year’s engagement with a trading firm Dada Abdoolla & Co which operated in South Africa and India. He did not leave South Africa finally till more than 20 years later after taking up the cause of the civil rights of the Indian community there. His