Why was Gandhiji regarded as some kind of a ‘Messiah’? Give one reason
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Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, 5:08 p.m.Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) Library
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
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Picture of Young Gandhi
Our popular image of Gandhi comes from posters, vivid quotes on nonviolence and the excellent Attenborough Film in which Gandhi is played with great spirit by Ben Kingsley. It is a picture of a fearless idealist and political messiah who discovers the heart of his culture and from that insight comes to lead his people to freedom by sheer will. We imagine him as a modern saint who embodied the virtues of nonviolence and forgiveness and whose message was accepted without question by the receptive Indian masses. He had the right message at the right time for India.
Mahatma Gandhi, and has made it clear, logical, plausible to western minds. He has made the man, and his influence, and the mysterious, sensitive fire of his spirit lives before us.