Political Science · Indian Political Thought
The book 'Unto This Last' greatly captivated and transformed M.K. Gandhi, so much so that he translated it into Gujarati. Who was its author?
ARuskin Bond
BJohn Ruskin ✓ Correct
CLeo Tolstoy
DNone of the above
Correct answer: (B) John Ruskin — Unto This Last was written by John Ruskin, so the answer is John Ruskin.
Explanation
★Unto This Last was written by John Ruskin, so the answer is John Ruskin.
★Gandhi read it in 1904 and said it changed his life overnight.
★He drew from it that the good of the individual lies in the good of all.
★He learned that a life of labour, like the tiller's, is the life worth living.
★He rendered its message into Gujarati as Sarvodaya, the welfare of all.
★Sarvodaya became a central ideal of his social and economic thought.
★So John Ruskin, not Tolstoy, is the author who shaped this Gandhian idea.
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