The Bhagavad Gita, also called The Song of the Lord, is a 700-line section of a much longer Sanskrit war epic, the Mahabharata, about the legendary conflict between two branches of an Indian ruling family. Framed as a conversation between Krishna, an incarnation of the god Vishnu, and a general of o[...]
A hardcover edition of a top-selling work, published to coincide with the "Global 2008 Gandhi Tour," commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the spiritual leader's death and features excerpts from his letters, speeches, and writings that share his beliefs about key world issues.[...]
The story of Mohandas Gandhi, one of the worlds best-loved and most important promoters of freedom and justice, fascinates every generation. Thrown off a South African train for sitting in a whites only compartment, Gandhi resolved to oppose injustice wherever he encountered it. His life of resistan[...]
In 1948, at the dawn of his country's independence, Mohandas Gandhi, father of the Indian independence movement and a beloved prophet of nonviolence, was assassinated by Hindu nationalists. In riveting detail, author James W. Douglass shows as he previously did with the story of JFK how police and s[...]
This is the moving story of a nonviolent hero, richly illustrated, told by an author who grew up in India and met Gandhi. Gandhi's life is both inspiring and baffling to modern readers. How did an ineffective young lawyer become the Mahatma, who led 400 million Indians in their nonviolent struggle f[...]
"David Cortright is a life-long activist and respected scholar. In Gandhi and Beyond, he convincingly shows the power of nonviolence as a philosophy of life, not just a method of social action. His practical analysis of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez, and others brings new ins[...]
To best understand and address the inequality in India today, Arundhati Roy insists we must examine both the political development and influence of M. K. Gandhi and why B. R. Ambedkar's brilliant challenge to his near-divine status was suppressed by India's elite. In Roy's analysis, we see that Ambe[...]
The bestselling author of JFK and the Unspeakable shines new light on the death of Mohandas Gandhi
Gandhi's nationalism was, in Wm Roger Louis's phrase, 'larger than the struggle for independence'. He sought a tolerant and unified state that included all communities within a 'Mother India'. This work will be essential reading for all scholars and students of Indian history and political ideas.[...]
Throughout his long and turbulent career as an Indian leader, first in South Africa and then in India, Gandhi sought to fulfill his religious aspirations through politics, and to reconcile politics with his private religious discipline. The Gandhi revealed here is not the secular saint of popular re[...]
Gandhi's nationalism seems simple and straightforward: he wanted an independent Indian nation state and freedom from British colonial rule. But in reality his nationalism rested on complex and sophisticated moral philosophy. His Indian state and nation were based on no shallow ethnic or religious co[...]
Mahatma Gandhi became a legend in his own time. A tireless fighter for human rights and for Indian independence, his strategy of satyagraha, or passive resistance, earned him the admiration of millions. Louis Fischer's biography is the definitive account of Gandhi's life; it tells the astonishing st[...]
New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Mohandas Gandhi, the father of India. As a young teenager in India, Gandhi led a rebellious life and went against his parents' values. But as a young man, he started to form beliefs of his own that harked back to[...]
This is the extended edition of Mahatma Gandhi's original and unabridged autobiography titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, completed with an extensive Foreword by The Gandhi Research Foundation.The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, covering his[...]
The life of Mohandas Gandhi is one of the most remarkable and potent in the modern era. This title allows us to understand the personality and politics of Mohandas Gandhi as never before.[...]
More than ever, people across the planet want deep and meaningful change. From those campaigning for social justice and ecological sustainability, to those who want to protect animals, indigenous cultures and those in poverty, millions are realising that another world is not only possible, but absol[...]