Gandhi Before Gandhi

Author(s): Bipin Doshi, Priti Shah
Publisher: Jain Academy Educational Research Center Promotion Trust Mumbai

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Authors' note
For the Christian theologians to accept that Jesus Christ stayed in India and was influenced by Indian religions, specially Hinduism and Buddhism, was too hard, too difficult and too uncatholic spirit. However Mr. Virchand Gandhi translated this work of Nicholas Notovitch in English and has proven his point by very well researched articles to affirm the authenticity of the manuscript and he writes "The evidence is overwhelming in favor of the theory that Jesus must have been attracted to and lived in India during the time about which the Evangelists are silent"
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Mr. Virchand Gandhi's researched articles to the Christian theologians who criticised the work of Mr. Nicholas Notovitch on "Unknown life of Jesus Christ"
The work, the translation of which I now put before the public, has created much comment among the thinking people all the world over and journalists have written both favorable and hostile criticisms on it. I shall not devote the pages of this work to a consideration of those criticisms. Having, however been born in India and traveled over that vast country, I feel it is my duty to put before the reader some salient points which seem to me to have an important bearing on the facts set forth by the work of Mr. Nicholas Notovitch.
Does Himis monastery exist?
I do not know why Christian theologians misrepresent the facts, which they cannot if they intend to be truthful, put before the
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intelligent public in their true light. I can cite numerous instances in which revered gentlemen have, intentionally or unintentionally, distorted, mangled and murdered the truth-I do not know with what object. The intelligent public of this country are well acquainted with the Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston, and had I not known him at all I would have said that he had intentionally misrepresented the facts when he wrote an article in the North American Review (May, 1894) on "The unknown Life of Jesus Christ," but knowing, as I do, of his broad views and catholic spirit, I would simply attribute his statements, in that article, to ignorance on the subject. That reverend gentleman, while criticizing this work (The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ), says: "But now