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Mahatma Gandhi

By Bertrand Russell

This article focuses on the early life of Gandhi and what moulded him into the person he later became.

Though Gandhi was not tall and well built his indomitable will made him a man few would think of opposing. His desire for justice and equality for people of all castes and creeds made him popular with the masses. The poor and simple folk identified with him due to his simple lifestyle.

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His honesty and belief in loving the enemy, even at the cost of his own life, endeared him to his friends and foes alike. His non- violence brought him international recognition and followers

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), later Earl Russell - prominent British philosopher and mathematician - served six months in prison in the First World War for his pacifism.

He renounced his pacifism in 1939, after the rise of fascism, but from 1949 led the movement for nuclear disarmament. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950.