Tolstoy Farm

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Tolstoy farm

Tolstoy Farm, the historic Transvaal home of Mahatma Gandhi, lies just 35km south-west of Johannesburg, a derelict brick shell in unkempt surroundings......

Tolstoy and Tolstoy Farm Lenasia

The 61 letters in this volume were written in Durban, South Africa, between September 1902 and June 1903 by M.H. Nazar, acting Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress and first editor of Indian Opinion, a weekly newspaper founded by.....

Photos on the life of M. K. Gandhi

Before his departure, Gandhi promises that should his services be required, he would return. Four months later he received an urgent appeal. Towards the end of 1902........

 

The Tolstoy farm - Gandhi's experiment in cooperative commonwealth

Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) attributes the success of the final phase of the satyagraha campaign in South Africa between 1908 and 1914 to the "spiritual purification and penance" afforded by the Tolstoy Farm. He devotes a considerable number of pages.......

Articles - Gandhi in South Africa
Mixed articles on Gandhi 1946

Opening of Imperial Parliament ......................

Gandhi's South African Days - Sathyagraha and the Tolstoy Farm

Indian an Foreign Review, Vol. 18. No. 6. 1 - 14 January 1981, Article included Gandhi's South African Days - Sathyagraha and the Tolstoy Farm by Sund

 

General articles on M K Gandhi
Newspaper articles on Mohandas Gandhi
Gandhi and co-operative commonwealth

The discovery of gold and diamonds hastened the incorporating of South Africa into the changing world economy. It fostered the shift from a pastoral to an industrial society........

Bibliography: Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi & Count Tolstoy

Gandhi was inspired by Tolstoy not only in respect of non-violence and non-violent resistance but also by his idea of 'Bread Labour' and its concomitant idea of 'getting off the backs' of others including the poor.

Tolstoy farm

Tolstoy Farm was the first ashram initiated and organized by Mohandas Gandhi during his South African movement.

Architects impression of the Tolstoy farm

The settlement was called the Tolstoy Farm at the suggestion of Kallenbach

Gandhi + group, Tolstoy Farm, Kallenbach - Gandhi c. 1895 western dress

Tolstoy Farm was the first ashram initiated and organized by Mohandas Gandhi during his South African movement.

Tolstoy farm picnic

Miscellaneous illustrations from Indian Opinion on Gandhi & the passive resistance movement

Kallenbach the owner of Tolstoy farm

Dr. Hermann Kallenbach (1 March 1871 – 25 March 1945) was a German-Jewish architect who ... Kallenbach himself named this farm after Leo Tolstoy as he was deeply influenced by Tolstoy's writings and philosophy. Abandoning the life of a ...

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