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    A Letter to a Hindu
    A Letter to a Hindu
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    A Letter to a Hindu

    By Leo Tolstoy

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    Release dateMay 29, 2008
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    Leo Tolstoy

    Leo Tolstoy grew up in Russia, raised by a elderly aunt and educated by French tutors while studying at Kazen University before giving up on his education and volunteering for military duty. When writing his greatest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy drew upon his diaries for material. At eighty-two, while away from home, he suffered from declining health and died in Astapovo, Riazan in 1910.

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      A Letter to a Hindu - Leo Tolstoy

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Letter to a Hindu, by Leo Tolstoy

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      Title: A Letter to a Hindu

      Author: Leo Tolstoy

      Commentator: M. K. Gandhi

      Release Date: April 6, 2009 [EBook #7176]

      Last Updated: November 26, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LETTER TO A HINDU ***

      Produced by Chetan Jain, and David Widger

      A LETTER TO A HINDU

      THE SUBJECTION OF INDIA—

      ITS CAUSE AND CURE

      With an Introduction by M. K. GANDHI

      Leo Tolstoy

      Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      A LETTER TO A HINDU

      INTRODUCTION

      The letter printed below is a translation of Tolstoy's letter written in Russian in reply to one from the Editor of Free Hindustan. After having passed from hand to hand, this letter at last came into my possession through a friend who asked me, as one much interested in Tolstoy's writings, whether I thought it worth publishing. I at once replied in the affirmative, and told him I should translate it myself into Gujarati and induce others' to translate and publish it in various Indian vernaculars.

      The letter as received by me was a type-written copy. It was therefore referred to the author, who confirmed it as his and kindly granted me permission to print it.

      To me, as a humble follower of that great teacher whom I have long looked upon as one of my guides, it is a matter of honour to be connected with the publication of his letter, such especially as the one which is now being given to the world.

      It is a mere statement of fact to say that every Indian, whether he owns up to it or not, has national aspirations. But there are as many opinions as there are Indian nationalists as to the exact meaning of that aspiration, and more especially as to the methods to be used to attain the end.

      One of the accepted and 'time-honoured' methods to attain the end is that of violence. The assassination of Sir Curzon Wylie was an illustration of that method in its worst and most detestable form. Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non-resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self-suffering. He admits of no exception to whittle down this great

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