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22 January 2010

Gandhi

 

Portrait bust of M K ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi (1869-1948) on lacquered plate with aphorisms. Unknown artist /maker. Burma, 1930s-1940s Photograph. Original lacquered bamboo with applied gold leaf. 18 x 2.3 m cm © Trustees of the British Museum 201, 0209, 2 Photographer John Williams

Three Gandhian aphorisms in Tamil surround the iconic portrait like a golden halo, framing the man with his philosophy. One reads: 'Yield to your enemy‘(or ‘Turn the other cheek’).

 
 
 

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