Abstract
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi made tremendous contribution to the freedom struggle for India while Martin Luther King, Jr. is acknowledged as a towering personality who successfully launched nonviolent struggle against racial discrimination in the United States. Time magazine declared King as a ‘Child of Gandhi’ and tried to create confusion in the historical accounts. Much research work has been produced on the Asian leadership but a comparison between the leadership of Asian and western societies is hardly taken up by the researchers in Pakistan. Through this article, an effort has been made to highlight similarities and dissimilarities between King and Gandhi. It also defies the myth pervasive in the world in general and in the US in particular that King was a disciple of Gandhi. The historical documents contain sufficient material to correct this misunderstanding consciously highlighted by the American media at the very outset of King’s civil rights struggle for African-Americans in the early 1950s. Both the leaders contributed to their respective communities but King’s image is deemed honourable equally by white and coloured people while Gandhi is remembered as a Hindu leader in the history
Dr. Akhtar Hussain Sandhu, Dr. Amna Mahmood. (2013) MARTIN LUTHER KING JR AND M. K. GANDHI: A COMPARATIVE STUDY, Pakistan , Volume 49, Issue 1.
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