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Mohandas K Ghandi: Autobiography by Mahatma Gandhi (Paperback, 1983)
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Critical, inspiring work of the man responsible for the freedom of India. The life of Gandhi has given fire and fiber to freedom fighters and to the untouchables of the world: hagiographers and patriots have capitalized on Mahatma myths.
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Boyhood, legal studies, purification, the growth of the Satyagraha - nonviolent protest - movement. Critical, inspiring work of the man responsible for the freedom of India. My purpose, Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am. Satyagraha, Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement (satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry; the principle was truth and the cry freedom. The life of Gandhi has given fire and fiber to freedom fighters and to the untouchables of the world: hagiographers and patriots have capitalized on Mahatma myths. Yet Gandhi writes: Often the title [Mahatma, Great Soul] has deeply pained me. . . . But I should certainly like to narrate my experiments in the spiritual field which are known only to myself, and from which I have derived such power as I possess for working in the political field. Clearly, Gandhi never renounced the world; he was neither pacifist nor cult guru. Who was Gandhi? In the midst of resurging interest in the man who freed India, inspired the American Civil Rights Movement, and is revered, respected, and misunderstood all over the world, the time is proper to listen to Gandhi himself - in his own words, his own confessions, his autobiography. Gandhi made scrupulous truth-telling a religion and his Autobiography inevitably reminds one of other saints who have suffered and burned for their lapses. His simply narrated account of boyhood in Gujarat, marriage at age 13, legal studies in England, and growing desire for purity and reform has the force of a man extreme in all things. He details his gradual conversion to vegetarianism and ahimsa (non-violence) and the state of celibacy (brahmacharya, self-restraint) that became one of his more arduous spiritual trials. In the political realm he outlines the beginning of Satyagraha in South Africa and India, with accounts of the first Indian fasts and protests, his initial errors and misgivings, his jailings, and continued cordial dealings with the British overlords. Gandhi was a fascinating, complex man, a brilliant leader and guide, a seeker of truth who died for his beliefs but had no use for martyrdom or sainthood. His story, the path to his vision of Satyagraha and human dignity, is a critical work of the twentieth century, and timeless in its courage and inspiration.Product Identifiers
PublisherDover Publications Inc.
ISBN-100486245934
ISBN-139780486245935
eBay Product ID (ePID)89018448
Product Key Features
Number of Pages480 Pages
Publication NameMohandas K Ghandi: Autobiography
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBiographies & Autobiographies, Government
Publication Year1983
TypeTextbook
AuthorMahatma Gandhi
Subject AreaBiographies & True Stories, Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height209 mm
Item Width136 mm
Height136mm
Width216mm
Weight522g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorMahatma Gandhi
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- 13 Sep, 2024
Yet to read but I am sure the book will be enlightening
I haven't read the book as yet. I bought it as I am lucky enough to live somewhere with close connections to Ghandi. I thought I would read his autobiography on holiday to understand a little more about himVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
