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From Pat Deveney's database:
Dharma. This was an international effort to promote the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi and make known the idea of India as the fountainhead of wisdom and correct living. It was closely associated with the Union of East and West founded before the First World War by the British Christial socialist, pacifist and Labour Party leader, "Our new magazine will make a special effort to bring to the West the noblest and best of India where Dharma originated and found its fulfillment in all faiths of all countries. * * * [Its] aim is to promote Dharma by cultivating in individual and collective life the doctrines of Dharma, such as Ahimsa (non-violence), Satya (truth), Asteya (non-stealing), Brahmacharya (self-control), Aparigraha (non-acquisition). That we--ourselves, may hold these five principles! as a sacred trust to apply them whenever and wherever we mient the need--and quietly influence our environment by this supreme test of the power of the Divine forces surging within us."
Its contributors were a who's who of Indians and Westerners who put up Gandhi as the paragon of non-violent and non-aggressive behavior as a model for the West, and saw the
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| University of Texas | |
| Dharma V1 N1 Jul-dec 1930 | |
| Dharma V7 N1 Jan-jun 1931 | |
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Dharma was the journal of the All-World Gandhi Fellowship, or Dharma Mandala, a transatlantic body based in New York and London that promoted 'the Vedic Dharma' with endorsements from Indian religious and princely figures. Its contents mixed Hindu religious philosophy — Sir John Woodroffe on Vedanta, Aurobindo Ghose, Keshub Chunder Sen on yoga, legends from the Mahabharata — with a comparative-religion strand that gathered Western admirers of Indian thought from Schopenhauer to Max Müller. Contributors of the standing of Annie Besant and Rabindranath Tagore wrote on the meaning of Dharma, while a large section chronicled Gandhi's campaign for Indian self-rule. It reads as a Hindu-Vedantic and perennialist periodical carried on the international currents of the Gandhian moment, with only a light Theosophical adjacency. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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