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Tolstoy Farm

colony, Johannesburg, South Africa

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establishment by Gandhi

  • Mahatma Gandhi
    In Mahatma Gandhi: The religious quest

    …near Johannesburg; it was named Tolstoy Farm for the Russian writer and moralist, whom Gandhi admired and corresponded with. Those two settlements were the precursors of the more-famous ashrams (religious retreats; see ashrama) in India, at Sabarmati near Ahmedabad (Ahmadabad) and at Sevagram near Wardha.

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