GANDHI'S APPROACH TO COMMUNAL PROBLEM BY P.K. DUTT [HARDCOVER]

Gandhi fought for communal harmony and at last laid down his life for it. He was a devout Hindu but held equal respect for all religions and upheld the right of all the religious minority groups to profess and practice their respective religions freely at footing with the majority group. Gandhi was not opposed to the Varna or caste based system in Hindu society but, he insisted that it must carry no connotation of pollution or purity, which generated into the evil and offensive practice of untouchability. Another evil of the Varna system he castigated was the consignment of some castes to manual labour, carrying with it lower social esteem reserving the socially esteemed intellectual work for the others. Gandhi felt that by removing this individual distinction, a socially useful reconstruction of the caste system was possible. This book is a thorough discussion on all these practical philosophies of M.K. Gandhi.