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TIL In 1908, Leo Tolstoy wrote "A Letter to a Hindu" to the Indian revolutionary and internationalist scholar, Taraknath Das. Tolstoy's letter explained that Indians needed to confront British imperialism with love and nonviolence, which inspired Mohandas Gandhi.

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