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- When his eldest son Harilal got himself converted to Islam, Gandhiji was very upset. He felt that Harilal's acceptance to Islam was a matter of convenience, to satisfy his greed of wealth and sensual pleasures. He had no objection if Harilal's conversion to Islam was from his heart and free from desire for material benefit.
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Jan 31, 2024 · Mahatma Gandhi's eldest son, Harilal converted his religion to Islam after his wife's death. After sacrificing his dreams of becoming a barrister just like his father, Harilal does normal-wage jobs. In the coming years, he got married to a woman named Gulab, but unfortunately, she passed away due to the influenza pandemic in 1918.
Dec 29, 2014 · His eldest son, Harilal, 48, had accepted Islam on May 29, 1936 at the Jumma Masjid in what was then Bombay. Bapu was concerned because he knew that his son had a different reason for converting ...
In 1925, Harilal had lent Mahatma Gandhi's name to a Calcutta firm All India Stores. One of the investor of this firm was a Muslim from Lyallpur, he feared this was a bogus fair. He sent a legal notice to Young India, whose editor was Mahatma Gandhi.
When his eldest son Harilal got himself converted to Islam, Gandhiji was very upset. He felt that Harilal's acceptance to Islam was a matter of convenience, to satisfy his greed of wealth and sensual pleasures. He had no objection if Harilal's conversion to Islam was from his heart and free from desire for material benefit. On another occasion ...
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Religious conversions. In May 1936, at the age of 48, Harilal publicly converted to Islam and named himself Abdullah Gandhi. [9] . Later on he re-converted to Hinduism. [10] Gandhi's letters. In June 1935, Mahatma Gandhi wrote a letter [11] to Harilal, accusing him of "alcohol and debauchery".
Oct 3, 2019 · He chose to become a Muslim at a time when the spectre of competitive communalism had already reared its ugly head. Ten years before Harilal’s controversial act, the stirrings of the two-nation theory had been felt at the Aligarh session of the All-India Muslim League.
Aug 12, 2007 · Harilal even converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdullah before his death in 1948, only months after his father was assassinated by a Hindu extremist.
