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Essential Gandhi An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

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ISBN-10: 1400030501

ISBN-13: 9781400030507

Edition: 2nd 2002

Authors: Mahatma Gandhi, Louis Fischer, Mahatma Gandhi

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Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma (“great soul”), 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’s own civil rights movement. Taken from Gandhi’s 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. “Gandhi was inevitable.…    
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List price: $18.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/12/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.16" wide x 8.03" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.594

Louis Fischer(J.D. and Ph.D., Stanford University) is Professor Emeritus and former dean of the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. nbsp; David Schimmel(J.D., Yale University) is Professor of Education in the Department of Educational Policy, Research, and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Visiting Professor at Harvard Universityrsquo;s Graduate School of Education. nbsp; Leslie R. Stellman(J.D., Syracuse University) is chairman of the Education Law Practice-Group of the Towson, Maryland, firm of Hodes, Ulman, Pessin & Katz, P.A., as well as an Adjunct Professor of Education Law at Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University…    

About the Vintage Spiritual Classics
Preface to the Vintage Spiritual Classics Edition
Foreword
The Man
Beginnings of a Great Man
Gandhi in England
Gandhi Fails
The Method Is Born
The Struggle
Victory in South Africa
The Mahatma
Facing the British in India
Segregation in India
Civil Disobedience Succeeds
Murder in an Indian Garden
Non-Violence
Gandhi's Road to Jail
The Power of the Mind
National Independence Is Not Enough
Gandhi's Message to All Men
Gandhi's Political Principles
Belief and Human Welfare
Sex, Sanitation, and Segregation
The Liberty March
How to Enjoy Jail
Fast Against Indian Prejudice
Blueprint for a Better Life
Gandhi on Socialism and Communism
Gandhi About Himself
Gandhi's Advice to Negroes
Love Versus War and Dictators
"Quit India"
Independence and Sorrow
Last Victory
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index