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How Utopia shaped the world
Features correspondent
In the nearly years since its publication, Thomas More’s Utopia has influenced everything from the thinking of Gandhi to the tech giants of Silicon Valley, writes Tom Hodgkinson.
An English lawyer, statesman, writer and saint, Thomas More was a strange character. Born in , he was progressive in some ways (he educated his daughters to a very high level) while also clinging to archaic customs (he wore hair shirts). An establishment figure, he was also an enemy of the Protestant Reformation and is known today as a Catholic martyr, having been beheaded by King Henry VIII.
Today, though, we may know More best for his invention of a word – and for his development of an idea that would be exported around the world. This concept would shape books, philosophies and political movements as varied as Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Mahatma Gandhi’s doctrine of passive resistance and the founding of the sta
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Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
murder in New Delhi, India
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Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30&#;January at age 78 in the compound of The Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti), a large mansion in huvud New Delhi. His assassin was Nathuram Godse, from Pune, Maharashtra, a Hindu nationalist, with a history of association with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu paramilitary organization and of membership of the Hindu Mahasabha.[4]
Sometime after 5 PM, according to witnesses, Gandhi had reached the top of the steps leading to the raised lawn behind Birla House where he had been conducting multi-faith prayer meetings every evening. As Gandhi began to walk toward the dais, Godse stepped out from the folkmassa flanking Gandhi's path, and fired three bullets into Gandhi's chest and stomach at point-blank range.[7] Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi
By B. R. Nanda
Gandhi did not claim to be a prophet or even a philosopher. "There is no such thing as Gandhism," he warned, "and I do not want to leave any sect after me." There was only one Gandhian, he said, an imperfect one at that: himself.
The real significance of the Indian freedom movement in Gandhi's eyes was that it was waged nonviolently. He would have had no interest in it if the Indian National Congress had adopted Satyagraha and subscribed to nonviolence. He objected to violence not only because an unarmed people had little chance of success in an armed rebellion, but because he considered violence a clumsy weapon which created more problems than it solved, and left a trail of hatred and bitterness in which genuine reconciliation was almost impossible.
This emphasis on nonviolence jarred alike on Gandhi's British and Indian critics, though for different reasons. To the former, nonviolence was a camouflage; to the latter, it was