Gandhi: “A One-Man Boundary Force!”

Satinder Dhiman

Chapter Chapter 1 in Gandhi and Leadership, 2015, pp 1-14 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract On August 15, 1947, India not only became independent from British imperial rule but was also partitioned into India and Pakistan. Instead of celebrating in Delhi, the nation’s capital, Mahatma Gandhi was in Calcutta (the capital of the state of West Bengal), pitting his whole soul against the communal riots that had broken out between Hindus and Muslims in the wake of partition. On August 26, 1947, Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of British India and frst Governor-General of Independent India, sent a letter to Gandhi that said: My dear Gandhiji, in the Punjab we have 55 thousand soldiers and large-scale rioting on our hands. In Bengal our forces consist of one man, and there is no rioting. As a serving offcer, as well as an administrator, may I be allowed to pay my tribute to the One-man Boundary Force.1

Keywords: Transformational Leadership; Servant Leadership; Leadership Lesson; Spiritual Root; Exemplary Leader (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137492357_1

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