Seven Social Sins

Seven Social Sins is a list by Frederic Donaldson that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi published in his weekly newspaper Young India on 22 October 1925.

[1] Later he gave this same list written on a piece of paper to his grandson, Arun Gandhi, on their final day together shortly before his assassination.

[1] An almost identical list had been published six months earlier in England in a sermon at Westminster Abbey by Fredrick Lewis Donaldson.

Some books have also focused on the seven sins or been structured around them: Many books have discussed the sins more briefly: They have also been anthologized: Regarding "politics without principle", Gandhi said[citation needed] having politics without truth(s) to justly dictate the action creates chaos, which ultimately leads to violence.

For example, a war of irredentism fought for one state to reclaim territory that was lost due to a law promoting ethnic cleansing.

[citation needed] More recently Mohandas Gandhi's list of negative qualities has also been described by his grandson as "Seven Blunders of the World".

Mohandas Gandhi published the list of "Seven Social Sins" in 1925. (1940s photo)
Arun Gandhi , who was personally given the list by his grandfather, Mohandas Gandhi, has described it as a list of "Seven Blunders of the World" that lead to violence.