A Letter to a Hindu

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(also known as "A Letter to a Hindoo") was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das on 14 December 1908.[1] The letter was written in response to two letters sent by Das, seeking support from the famous Russian author and thinker for Indias independence from colonial rule. The letter was published in the Indian newspaper Free Hindustan. The letter caused the young Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to write to the world-famous Tolstoy to ask for advice and for permission to reprint the Letter in Gandhis own South African newspaper, Indian Opinion, in 1909. Mohandas Gandhi was stationed in South Africa at the time and just beginning his lifelong activist career. He then translated the letter himself, from the original English copy sent to India, into his native Gujarati.[1]

In "A Letter to a Hindu", Tolstoy argued that only through the principle of love could the Indian people gain independence from colonial rule. Tolstoy saw the law of love espoused in all the worlds religions, and he argued that the individual, nonviolent application of the law of love in the form of protests, strikes, and other forms of peaceful resistance were the only alternative to violent revolution. These ideas ultimately proved to be successful in 1947 in the culmination of the Indian independence movement.

In this letter, Tolstoy mentions the works of Swami Vivekananda. This letter, along with Tolstoys views, preaching, and his 1894 book The Kingdom of God Is Within You, helped to form Mohandas Gandhis views about nonviolent resistance.[1]

The letter introduced Gandhi to the ancient Tamil moral literature, the Tirukku?a?, which Tolstoy referred to as Hindu Kural.[2] Gandhi then took to studying the Kural while in prison

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AMAZON)  Here is Tolstoys masterpiece on nonviolence in the first new English translation in decades by Damian Westfall. Also included with A Letter to a Hindu is the complete correspondence between Tolstoy and Gandhi, an introduction by Gandhi and a new preface and epilogue by Damian Westfall the translator. In 1908 Tarak Nath Das, an Indian revolutionary and editor of  Free Hindustan , a magazine published to further the efforts of emancipating the Indians from the British colonial rule, sent Leo Tolstoy two issues of  Free Hindustan  and a letter explaining the oppression and subjugation of the people of India by the English and asked the world famous writer for advice on the best way to achieve freedom from the minority who enslaved 200,000,000 people and on December 14th , 1908, Tolstoy began writing what would be inevitably entitled  A Letter to a Hindu  in Russian, but it was soon translated into English by an anonymous writer and in 1909 Das published  A Letter to a Hindu  in an edition of  Free Hindustan , his magazine. A young lawyer turned activist who worked nonstop for the emancipation of India named Gandhi read Tolstoy s  A Letter to A Hindu  in  Free Hindustan  while living in South Africa where he resided with a population of 30,000 other Indians who were being oppressed and subjugated by the white Christians in the Transvaal province of South Africa. Gandhi was already a follower of Tolstoy after he read and was radicalized by Tolstoy s  The Kingdom of GOD is Within You  and immediately Gandhi knew he wanted to publish  A Letter to a Hindu  in his own magazine  Indian Opinion  that he was printing and distributing from Transvaal. And so, the young Gandhi wrote to Tolstoy to make sure that Tolstoy actually wrote the letter and asked Tolstoy if he, Gandhi Himself, could translate  A Letter to A Hindu  into the Indian dialect Guajarati and this began a correspondence of six letters between Gandhi and Tolstoy which concluded with Tolstoy s death in 1910 at 82 years old. The story of Indias nonviolent revolution led by Gandhi is amazing and inspiring, but the reader of  A Letter to a Hindu  doesnt need to know all the details of the Indian problem presented by Tarak Nath, they are not necessary, because the Indian situation is used by Tolstoy only as an example. It is the theories presented by Tolstoy that are the guts of the letter, and at its center is the reason for publishing these texts, Tolstoy s thoughts on the concept of nonresistance to evil by violence (Matthew 5:38-42, Luke 6:27-31) which includes giving good to evil, not retaliating, loving your enemies, and most importantly the order from Christ that if someone slaps your face you should then turn your face so they can hit the other side as well. This is usually referred to as  to turn the other cheek  and it is roundly negated and discarded by most pastors and Christians, but this is a direct command from Christ that cannot be ignored or rejected, and this is the core of Tolstoy s ethics: Nonresistance to Evil by Violence

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