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Exhibition on ‘Gandhi-Kallenbach Papers’ inaugurates
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New Delhi; The
exhibition regarding the ‘Gandhi-Kallenbach Papers’ has been inaugurated by Union
Minister of Culture Chandresh Kumari Katoch here.
Herman Kallenbach
(1871-1945) was one of the foremost friends and associates of Mahatma Gandhi
while they were working in South Africa. A German born Jewish South African
architect, Kallenbach was greatly influenced by Gandhiji’sviews on Satyagraha and
donated his thousand acre farm to Gandhiji near Johannesburg, which
was developed as “Tolstoy Farm” housing the families of Satyagrahis.
It became the laboratory for experimenting Gandhian Philosophy,
i.e. simplelifestyle, vegetarian diet, social equality, politics and
self-sustained economy.
Kallenbach remain involved with Gandhijithroughout
the Satyagraha in South Africa and also accompanied Gandhiji and Kasturba Gandhi
on their final voyage from South Africa to London in 1914. Gandhiji and
Kallenbach used to call each other as “Upper House” and “Lower House”
respectively, Lower House preparing the budget and Upper House vetoing it in
large chunks.
The present
display is based on Gandhiji’s correspondence with Kallenbach which
is the latest addition to the Private Paper Collections in National Archives
of India. This correspondence classified in 13 groups not only reflectsGandhiji’s association
with Mr. Herman Kallenbach but also depicts Gandhiji’s relationship
with his brother Simon Kallenbach and niece Hana Lazar.
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Letters of several
eminent Indian personalities viz. Gopal Krishna Gokhale, PherozeshahMehta,
C. F. Andrews, Mahadev Desai, Pyarelal, Sushila Ben,
Mira
Ben, Maganlal Gandhi, Manilal Gandhi, Harilal Gandhi,Devdas Gandhi, Ramdas Gandhi
etc. are important highlights of these Papers. The collection also contains
some letters of Isabella Fyvie Mayo, a close associate of Gandhiji and
Kallenbach apart from being a pioneering translator of Tolstoy’s writings
into English. Besides, the collection has 287 photographs and memorabilia
e.g. Yarvada Chakra, flag of Suraj,Khadi Scarf,
etc., which shows the impact of Gandhiji in the daily life of
Kallenbach. The original copies of Young India andHarijan are
also part of the collection.
The exhibition will remain open for public till 15 February 2013
at the National Archives of India, Janpath, New Delhi.
Click here to see details of the exhibihttp://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2013/jan/d2013013001.pdfts at the
exhibition.
(Source PIB)
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