Souvenir of the XV World Vegetarian Congress 1957
The articles on this page were originally published in a 400 page hardback book.

• Indian Patrons and Editorial Board
  
• Office Bearers of the International Vegetarian Union
• Office Bearers of Regional Reception Committees in India

CONTENTS

Messages and Greetings

• from Dr. Rajendra Prasad - President, Union of India
  
• from Sri C. Rajagopalachari and Dr. S. Radhakrishnan - Ex-Governor General and Vice-President of the Union India
  
• from The Hon'ble U Nu - Prime Minister of Burma
  
• from other prominent people in India
  
• from America, Britain and New Zealand

• To Beloved India - Mme Gloria Gasque, President of the International Vegetarian Union
  
• India Welcomes the 15th World Vegetarian Congress - Srimati Rukmini Devi, President of the All-India Reception Committee
  
• The Indian Problem - Dr. C. P. Ramaswamy Aiyar
  
• Vegetarianism : A Message for the New Age - Dr. Dasturji Framroze A. Bode
  
• Welcome to the Congress - Sri Prakasa, Governor of Bombay
  
• Vegetarianism : A Way of Life - Dr. M. Beddow Bayly M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
  
• The Spiritual Approach to Food - Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
  
• Bhagavan Sri Ramalia Maharishi's Views on Food
  
• Kabir's Call to Compassion - T. L. Vaswani
  
• Currents of Vegetarianism and the Importance of Vegetarian Diet - Swami Sivananda
  
• Message from Spiritual Head of Namdhari Sect of Sikhs
  
• Message from Buddhist Archbishop of Latvia
  
• Ethical Vegetarianism as the Foundation of Universal Peace - Dr. John H. Manas Ph.D., N.D., Ms.D., Psy.D.; President,Pythatgorean Society; Secretary-Treasurer, The American Naturopathic Association Inc.; Dean The American Maimonistic Academy of Art Science and Ethics.
  

VEGETARIANISM FOR HEALTH - Doctors and Biochemists Testify

• Nutritive Value of Vegetarian Diets - Dr. D. Subramaniam, Director Central Food Technological Research Institute Mysore
  
• Vital Facts about Vegetarianism and Nutrition - Dr. J. M. Jussawalla N.D., D.O., D.C. (ENG), Director, Natural Therapy Clinic, Bombay; Hon. Director Physiotherapy Clinic of the Victoria Memorial School for the Blind
  
• Sunlight Food - Drs. M. Bircher-Benner and Max E. Bircher, Zurich, Switzerland
  
• Nutritional Aspect of Vegetarianism - Capt. N. Seshadrinathan, M.B.B.S., D.T.M.
  - Español: Aspectos Nutricionales del Vegetarianismo
  
• Fruit vs. Flesh in Human Diet - Dr. Jwala Prasad, B.A.M.B. Jaipur
  
• Vegetarianism : Its Biologic Basis - Dr. M. I. Pandurangam
  
• Edible Greens - N. Ramaswami Pillai
  
• Nature Cure - Dr. Keki R. Sidhwa, D.O.
  
• Cholesterol - the Killer
  
• Must Dogs have Meat for Food?
  
• Vegetarianism for Strength, Sensitivity, Service
  
• Greed - the Servant of Himsa - 'Janus'
  

WARRIORS OF VEGETARIANISM - Anna Bonus Kingsford, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Stephens Salt, General Bramwell Booth

• Vegetarianism in the Light of Theosophy - Dr. Annie Besant
  
• Vegetarian Experiments - M. K. Gandhi
  
• Moral Basis of Vegetarianism - M. K. Gandhi
  
• The Highest Motive for Vegetarianism - Richard Wagner
  
• The World Crucifixion - Dr. George S. Arundale
  
• The Cruelties and Diseases Connected with Flesh-Eating - Dr. James H. Cousins
  
• True Vegetarianism - Felicitas K. Wilson, Chicago Vegetarian Society
  
• Giving up Meat-Eating is Essential Aspect of Ahimsa - Acharya Vinobha Bhave
  
• The Logic of Vegetarianism - Geoffrey L. Rudd, Secretary of the Vegetarian Society (UK), Editor of World Forum
  
• International Vegetarianism - Dr. J. de Marquette, President, French Vegetarian Association and Vice President, International Vegetarian Union,
  
• What is Vegetarianism? - Charles Brandt
  
• Hitting at Nothing - E. L. Pratt, Editor, The American Vegetarian, Pismo Beach, California
  
• Spiritual Life and Vegetarianism - Dr. K. Nimmo
  
• Veganism - John Heron, President, The Vegan Society London, England
  
• Views on Veganism - R. M. A. Bocking
  
• The Religion of Compassion - D. C. Desai
  
• Change in the Patttern of Western Civilization - Dr. Ralph Bircher, Switzerland
  
• Yoga for You - Indra Devi
  
• Vegetarianism can Turn a Miserable Life into a Pleasant One - Dr. B. Lytton-Bernard, USA
  
• Vegetarianism - a Way of Life - Ralph Richard Keithahn
  
• Vegetarianism and Occultism - C. W. Leadbeater
  
• Our Natural Food - Charles Brandt
  

VEGETARIANISM IN MANY LANDS

• A Vegetarian World - Lee Pritzker, Canada
  
• History of Vegetarianism - Goeffrey L. Rudd, UK
  
• The International Vegetarian Union - W. A. Sibly, Past-President of IVU
  
• England : the vegetarian movement in Britain - James Hough
  
• Vegetarianism : England, 1888 - Kenneth Trueman
  
• In 1905 - from the Indian Review
  
• In 1914 : An Indian's Experience - by V. V. Giri
  
• America : Vegetarianism - Chain Reaction in America - Daniel P. Hoffman
  
• Canada: - Eva M. Budd, Secretary, Toronto Unit, and Ruth E. Playle, Secretary, Canadian Vegetarian Union
  
• Italy - Aldo Capitini, President Italian Vegetarian Society
  
• Denmark - N. Nielsen; H. Mosegard; President & Vice-President, Danish Vegetarian Society
  
• Holland - G. Van Nederveen, President, Board of the Central Institute
  
• Norway - extract from the American Medical Journal
  
• Vegetarians in Japan: - Werner Zimmermann, Austria
  
• India : A Noble Inheritance - K. Santhanam, Chairman, Finance Commission
  
• Vegetarianism in India - by J. N. Mankar
  
• All India Women's Food Council : Madras State Centre - Smt. M. C. Jadhav
  
• A Vegetarian in Central Africa - by W. S. James
  
• Israel - Pinchas Nasich of Rishon Le Zion
  

VEGETARIANISM IN WORLD RELIGIONS

• In Indian and Other Religions - by J. N. M.
  
• Hinduism - Jayadayal Goyandkar
  
• The Hindu Attitude Towards Vegetarianism - N. Raghunathan
  
• Hinduism (Saivaism) - Satchidanandam Pillai
  
• Jainism - A. N. Upadhye
  
• Teaching of Jainism - Kamta Prasad Jain
  
• Buddha and Vegetarianism - the path to non-violence - S. H. Jhabvala
  
• Did Lord Buddha Countenance Meat-Eating? - U San Hla
  
• Zoroastrianism - Dastur Khurshed S. Dabu
  
• Sikhism (Namdhari) - Satguru Pratapsingh Maharaj
  
• A Namdhari Sikh's Testimony - Sardar Teja Singh Namdhari
  
• Hebrew Religion of Israel
  
• Islam - by Abdul Karim
  
• Sufism - by Prof. Mohd. Almamoon Arzenjani
  
• In the Ancient Mysteries
  
• Christianity : Jesus was a Vegetarian - Sadie G. Stave
  
• Vegetarianism - an aspect of peace - Mrs. Josephine Ransom
  
• Religious Considerations - A Survey of many religions by G. L. R.
  

VOICE OF THE GREAT - Yesterday and Today

• 8th Century B, C. to 5th Century, A. D. - Hesiod, Pythagoras, Cyrus the Great, Herodotus, Empedokles, Plato, Socrates, Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch, Tertullian, Saint Clement of Alexandria, Porphyry, Saint Basile the Great, Saint Jerome. Saint Augustin, Chrysostum
  
• The Voice of the Great - Today - Albert Schweitzer, Leo Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore, Friedrich Nietsche, Rene Descartes, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Maurice Maeterlinck, Henry David Thoreau, Emmanuel Swedenborgh, Charles Fillmore, T. L. Vaswani, Sir Stafford Cripps, Benjamin Franklin, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Albert Einstein, La Grange, Charles Darwin, James H. Cousins, Romain Rolland, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Arliss, Richard Wagner, Voltaire.
  
• Compassionate Appeals from the Poets - Coleridge, Longfellow, Milton, Cowper, Shelley, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Arnold, Hardy, Goldsmith
  
• Vegetarianism in Tamil Literature - Prof. T. P. Meenakshi Sundaram, Madras
  
• Tirukkural (Tamil)
  
• The Almighty Possibility - by Woodland Kahler, Foreign Secretary of the American Vegetarian Union
  
• A Pioneer Vegetarian's Prophecy in 1894 - Dr. Josiah Oldfield
  

THE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS

• The Horrors of Blood-Stained Food - introduction to the items below, which are from 'Conscience' and other journals
  
• True Love - a poem by Julie Chanler
  
• Monsters and Cannibals That We Are - W. H. Hudson (In Praise of the Cow)
  
• The Shepherd and the Butcher: Strange Inconsistencies
  
• A Modern Slaughter House
  
• For the Sake of Flavour
  
• Peace and Goodwill to Men! - Maitland and Kingsford
  
• The Mass of Christ - a poem by James H. Cousins
  
• From Crown to Unearned Death
  
• An English Farmer Turns Vegetarian
  
• Slaughter in India - Peter Hoffman
  
• An Appeal to Animal Lovers - D. J. Buxey
  
• Blood-Stained Medicine - by Prem
  
• 100% Ahimsa - Dr. Annie Besant
  
• For the Sake of So-Called Health - Rukmini Devi
  
• Humanitarianism - Eastern and Western Brands - George S. Arundale
  

HOW TO BECOME A VEGETARIAN - Adeltha P. Siitaa Devi

• Food Tables and Values - from Rose's Dietetic Handbook and Ind. Gov. Health Bul. 23
  
• Minerals Needed, their source and their availability - Ind. Gov. Health Bul. 23
  
• Pressed Nut-Meat Roasts - with recipes
  
• Is a Transition Period Needed - A. E. Powell; Henry S. Salt, Dr. Jwala Prasad, A. Vine Hall
  
• The Unity of the Spiritual and the Scientific Values in Vegetarianism -Vaidya Ratna Pandit Shiv Sharma, Bombay
  
• Vegetarianism an Essential Key to Yoga - B. K. S. Iyengar
  
• Vegetarianism Transcendent - Alexander Markey
  
• Vegetarian Blessings - Quinta. Mi Retiro, and Virginia A. Baverstock

Envoi & Our Thanks
Reports of.the Sponsoring Organizations :
The Bombay Humanitarian League - J. N. Mankar
All India Animal Welfare Association - Mrs. Mehra Vakil

Quotations from throughout the book

Full Page Adverts from throughout the book 1-30
Full Page Adverts from throughout the book 31-65