Anthony Parel

thumb|right|Anthony Parel lights a traditional diya at the Hind Swaraj International Centenary Conference in Nov 2009 Anthony Parel (born 1926) is a Canadian historian, author and academic. He has authored and edited a number of books, on subjects including Thomas Aquinas, Niccolò Machiavelli, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and South Asian history. Quotes The Mahatma was a harmonizer of communities and people. Inclusion and not separation was his way. Hindutva disagreed with Gandhi on his interpretation of Hinduism. The agendas of Hindutva though strong on the issues of self-identity and self-definition, have tended to be separatist. The Vaishnava that he was, Gandhi believed in treating "the suffering of others as his own." From such a point of view, it seems clear that the intolerance of Hindutva will not permit the people of India to build a compassionate and just social order. Gandhi, Freedom, and Self-rule (2000), Lexington Books, p. 133. External links Category:Academics from Canada Category:Historians from Canada Category:Non-fiction authors from Canada Category:1926 births Category:Living people