Dharma.
A Journal of All-World Gandhi Fellowship / A Semi-Annual Journal.
1930--1936 Semi-annual
New York, NY, and London, England.
Editor: Kedar Nath Das Gupta.
Publisher: Union of East and West.
1/1, July-December 1930-1936.
98-16 pp., 50 cents a copy.

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, George Lansbury. (He was the grandfather of Angela Lansbury.) Das Gupta (1878-1942) was a Bengali theatrical producer and Indian activist who produced plays, by Rabindrinath Tagore and others, in London and New York.

"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 League of Nations as the first step to attaining this perfect goal: Rabindranath Tagore, Annie Besant, Romain Rolland, Sir John Woodroffe, Heywood Broun, Aurobindo Ghose, Francis E. Younghusband, Sherwood Eddy, et al. University of Texas

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