In the sentence, certain words are in bold and numbered from A to E, which are the possible pairs to be interchanged. Choose the pair(s) of words which need to be interchanged to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful. 

Like Buddhism, Gandhism has been (A) involvement by distant people who see in its (B) tenets the promise of a meaningful life and it was as though Gandhi's (C) embraced with India was merely (D) incidental to his larger involvement with what he (E) persistently called Truth.