Back in the 1920s, a book-length comparison between Gandhi and Lenin made eminent sense. ADVERTISEMENTSo far as I know, the first writer to compare Gandhi and Lenin in print was the Bombay radical, Shripad Amrit Dange. In April 1921, Dange published a tract, sixty pages long, carrying the straightforward title, Gandhi vs Lenin. Ward also noted that Lenin and Gandhi transcended their middle-class backgrounds and identified themselves with the masses through the ”bare simplicity of their lives”. The manuscript of the article is unfortunately no longer available, but the nature of its contents is revealed in a letter that Spratt wrote to Roy.

Source: The Telegraph December 27, 2025 10:13 UTC