Gandhi's most intimate thoughts about life are revealed in these excerpts from his great body of writings

Essential Gandhi

Biographies & Memoirs

Gandhi, Mohandas K.

Leaders & Notable People

Unwin Hyman

Gandhi: An Autobiography

Dover Publications

All Men Are Brothers is a compelling and unique collection of Gandhi's most trenchant writings on nonviolence, especially in the context of a post-nuclear world. This compendium, which reads like a traditional book - "Gandhi without tears" - is drawn from a wide range of his reflections on world peace. "It is not that I am incapable of anger, but I succeed on almost all occasions to keep my feelings under control. Such a struggle leaves one stronger for it. The more I work at this, the more I feel delight in my life, the delight in the scheme of the universe. It gives me a peace and a meaning of the mysteries of nature that I have no power to describe."&gt;

All Men Are Brothers

History

Asia

Bloomsbury Academic

Gandhi used his time in prison corresponding with followers. One asked about the ethical questions in the Bhagavad Gita, and Gandhi replied to this, and to other questions. Finally, he put together his comments and analysis of the lessons that Krishna was sharing with Arjuna in a little book, his most concise expression of this Hindu holy book as he understood it. After his autobiography, this may be the closest record of Gandhi's spiritual understanding. A sample chapter is available at www.bandannabooks.com/free/gandhisample.zip. For a different view on the Indian subcontinent, you might like Ghazals of Ghalib, a 19th-century poet who wrote in Persian and Urdu. His ghazals are witty, self-revealing, thoughtful. He lived through the Sepoy Mutiny and the British Raj, asking Queen Victoria to support poetry as the rajahs had done, by direct donation.

Gandhi on the Gita

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Bandanna Books

Hind Swaraj was written by Mahatma Gandhi in 1908, while traveling from London to South Africa. The book contains his views on Swaraj (Home Rule), Modern Civilization, Mechanization etc. The book was originally written in Gujarati, Mahatma Gandhi's mother tongue. The English translation was done by Mahadev Desai, Mahatma Gandhi's Personal Secretary, who is well recognized for his contribution to Indian Independence movement.

Hind Swaraj Or Indian Home Rule

Politics & Government

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi

My first acquaintance with the Gita began in 1888-89 with the verse translation by Sir Edwin Arnold known as the Song Celestial. On reading it, I felt a keen desire to read a Gujarati translation. And I read as many translations as I could lay hold of. But all such reading can give me no passport for presenting my own translation. Then again my knowledge of Sanskrit is limited, my knowledge of Gujarati too is in no way scholarly. How could I then dare present the public with my translation?

Self-Help

Wilder_Publications

INDIAN HOME RULE is Mohandas K. Gandhi's 1922 English translation of his 1909 original written in his native language. Presenting his theses as dialogue between a common Indian and Gandhi, himself-the "Reader" and the "Editor" of the text-the author is able to anticipate the many arguments against what must have seemed a radical-perhaps illusionary-approach to regaining control of a country. Gandhi's points, however, are quite reasonable. One by one, he takes the Reader's challenges. The Editor explains patiently the grip England came to have over time and how it came to be. In a sense, he suggests that India begin a process of reversing that trend. Civilization as usually defined must revert to the old Indian ways, bringing civilized interactions between individuals. English laws, railroads, mechanical production have enslaved and divided the people. The trappings of civilization have Anglicized the nation and made it dependent. That dependence must be broken. Most intriguing, as it remains today, is his philosophy of nonviolence. It is his "soul force" as opposed to the "brute force" commonly considered the means for change. "I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilization required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection."It is this (now-proven) idea that has made Mohandas K. Gandhi a symbol for India's and other nations' peaceful and successful movements for change.

Indian Home Rule

This is the extended edition of Mahatma Gandhi's original and unabridged autobiography titledThe Story of My Experiments with Truth, completed with a foreword from The Gandhi Research Foundation. The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1921. It was written and published in his journal, Navjivan from 1925 to 1929. It was initiated at the insistence of Swami Anand and other close co-workers of Gandhi, who encouraged him to explain the background of his public campaigns. The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the personal account of the life of the man who freed India from colonization through the Satyagraha — nonviolent protest — movement. His early boyhood life, legal studies, purification, and ultimate salvation of his homeland is carefully recounted in this inspiring and critical work of insurmountable importance. In 1999, the book was designated as one of the "100 Best Spiritual Books of the 20th Century" by a committee of global spiritual and religious authorities.

The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Mahatma Gandhi's Autobiography with a Foreword by the Gandhi Research Foundation

Gandhi: Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography

Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited

The Bhagavad Gita is a profound religious text, and Gandhi's commentary on the Gita is regarded as among the most important of the twentieth century. Gandhi addresses the issues he felt most directly affected the spiritual lives of common people. In his own words his interpretation (of the Gita) is designed for the common man, 'one who has little or no literary equipment, who has neither the time nor the desire to read the Gita in the original, and yet who stands in need of its support'. This book is based on talks given by the Mahatma at the Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad, over a nine month period. During this period Gandhi devoted much of his time and energy to translating the Gita from Sanskrit into Gujarati.

Children's Books

Religions

www.bnpublishing.com

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Gandhi, Mohandas K.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Gandhi, Mohandas K.

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Gandhi, Mohandas K.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Essential Gandhi

Gandhi: An Autobiography

All Men Are Brothers

Gandhi on the Gita

Hind Swaraj Or Indian Home Rule

The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi

Indian Home Rule

The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Mahatma Gandhi's Autobiography with a Foreword by the Gandhi Research Foundation

Gandhi: Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography

The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi