The Essential Gandhi

Description for THE ESSENTIAL GANDHI: AN ANTHOLOGY OF HIS WRITINGS ON HIS LIFE, WORK AND IDEAS by Mahatma Gandhi and edited by Louis Fischer:

Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma (?ǣgreat soul?ǥ), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent and is as important today as it was in the first part of the twentieth century and during this nation?ÇÖs own civil rights movement. Taken from Gandhi?ÇÖs writings throughout his life, THE ESSENTIAL GANDHI introduces us to his thoughts on politics, spirituality, poverty, suffering, love, non-violence, civil disobedience, and his own life. The pieces collected here, with explanatory head notes by Gandhi biographer Louis Fischer, offer the clearest, most thorough portrait of one of the greatest spiritual leaders the world has known.

?ǣGandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. . . . We may ignore him at our own risk.?ǥ ?ÇôDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

With a new Preface drawn from the writings of Eknath Easwaran

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