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Book Synopsis Mahatma Gandhi the Known and The Unknown by : M L George
Download or read book Mahatma Gandhi the Known and The Unknown written by M L George and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why I venture to write a book on Gandhiji when tons of pulp have already been used up by authors across the glob? I would like to justify to be an inner urge or rather an instinct to communicate what has been communicated. This year being Gandhiji's 150th birth anniversary, I decided to undertake a pilgrimage to his birth place, Porbandar and to his ancestral house, presently known as "Kirti Mandir". Then this idea flashed across my mind. Jesus Christ has been my soul force. So was he to Gandhiji as well. I prefer to think, this is the connecting link with me and Gandhiji.
Book Synopsis Mahatma Gandhi -- the Known and the Unknown by : M. GEORGE
Download or read book Mahatma Gandhi -- the Known and the Unknown written by M. GEORGE and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M.K. GANDHI -- THE MAHATMA There is a famous saying, "Some people are born great, some achieve greatness, and some people are thrust upon greatness!" The first category of people are those born as the children of kings and monarchs. I believe that the second category constitute people like Gandhiji, who achieve greatness through their precious life by upholding their precious principles in life, without jettisoning them while sailing through the rough sea of life. Certainly there were his fore runners to him in the annals of the history, like Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. etc. But Gandhiji became a "Mahatma" not only by his martyrdom, but by establishing himself as a living legend as an apostle of peace and nonviolence. Before starting his experiments with Truth, he was an ordinary young man with strong sexual appetite and violent temper. And in his boyhood, he was just an ordinary boy, fragile, timid and even a coward who was afraid even to enter into another room of his own house without the company of others. But at the same time, he had enough mischief like eating meat flouting the custom of his caste, smoking and stealing money from his house to indulge in such hateful and forbidden activities. He did not like any sports activities and did not mingle with his colleagues whom he was afraid to face for fear of taunting remarks from them. But the great transformation of his personality from trembling timidity to a most courageous man occurred in a single incident when he was pushed out of the first class compartment at Maritzburg railway station, for being a colored coolie barrister. This humiliation hurt his self respect and made him a great crusader of civil rights. He later told, "I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self respect." This fiery awareness of self respect was the only capital he possessed in his life. It urged him to fight relentlessly against injustice and inhuman discrimination. Even after becoming a famous and respectable civil rights activist, no body attributed any greatness to him until 1930. The world came to know him when he successfully launched the "Salt Satyagraha". It catapulted him to the status of a unique world leader who could shake the great British Empire by a pinch of salt and proved to the world that nonviolent satyagraha can conquer the mightiest force. He became the Time magazine's "Man of the Year" He was nominated five times for Nobel Prize. Gandhij's life and teachings have inspired many great leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu kyi etc. It is said that it was Rabindranath Tagore called him, "Mahatma" for the first time. In the eyes of millions across the world Gandhiji is now a "Mahatma". He is also recognized as India's "Father of Nation". Thousands of books have been written about him by great writers. He is now one of the most universally recognized person on earth. But he was a man of flush and blood and that is the main reason why millions liked him and even loved him. His ordinary life, turned extraordinary through self purification by his persistent pursuit for truth. His life was an inspiration for innumerable works of art and literature. There is even a cult movement known as "Gandhism" to venerate Gandhiji and make him a religious icon. But he had never projected himself as a godly incarnation like many do in India. Rather he said,"There is no such thing as Gandhism" and I do not want to leave any sect after me. I do not claim to have originated any new principle or doctrine. I have simply tried in my own way to apply the eternal truths to our daily life and problems. The options I have formed and the conclusions I have arrived at are not final. I may change them tomorrow. I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills." This kind of humility is another mark of a great soul!
Download or read book Mahatma Gandhi written by Barry Powell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GANDHI: FACTS AND LITTLE KNOWN STORIES ABOUT THE INDIAN THAT SHOOK THE WORLD Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was not born with the physical qualities of a leader. A weak, shy and introverted child like him with the fear of both God and man would be expected to be soon absorbed into the collective consciousness and belief systems shared by the - almost half a billion - Indians of his time: not trying to make a change, but trying to make a living. What happened to Mohandas? Where did that fearful child find the courage to think differently, and most importantly, to act differently? In his book, Mahatma Gandhi Facts and Surprising Unknown Stories, Barry Powell, using storytelling, sheds light on Mohandas Gandhi's personality as well as the emotional adventures that contributed to the shaping of his unique leadership style. Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About Gandhi is in this Book! Mahatma Gandhi Facts and Surprising Unknown Stories is a compilation of the most interesting stories and facts from Gandhi's biographical timeline, which sheds light on the human side of this almost supernatural leader and gives us answers to hundreds of hot questions. Amongst them: - What are the two sins that Gandhi committed when he was a teenager? -Why did Gandhi try to commit suicide? -What happened the night of his father's death, which haunted him and filled him with guilt throughout his lifetime? -Was Gandhi a vegetarian by choice or by religion? -What happened that completely destroyed his career as a lawyer before it even started? -How did he find himself in Africa shortly after? -What happened in Africa that shaped his destiny to become a freedom fighter? -What were Gandhi's true feelings for his wife Kasturba? -Who was the fascinating woman that bewitched Gandhi while he was married to Kasturba? -What happened shortly after he founded his Ashram, which almost led them to bankruptcy? -What was Gandhi's main argument against the use of machines? -Which important personality gave the title of Mahatma (Great Soul) to Gandhi? -When and why did Gandhi deny his Western clothes and started appearing in his white Indian loincloth? -What astonishing thing did he say about the Bible? -If he admired Jesus, why didn't he become a Christian? -What were his feelings about all living beings of creation? -What did Gandhi say the moment that Kasturba died in prison? -Why didn't Gandhi celebrate on India's Independence Day? -What exactly happened on the day of his assassination? -Who was the man that killed Gandhi? -Much much more! An inspiring and touching book about everything you ever wanted to ask about Gandhi! 1 2 sampletm
Book Synopsis Gandhi Before India by : Ramachandra Guha
Download or read book Gandhi Before India written by Ramachandra Guha and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in modern history. Ramachandra Guha—hailed by Time as “Indian democracy’s preeminent chronicler”—takes us from Gandhi’s birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa. Guha has uncovered myriad previously untapped documents, including private papers of Gandhi’s contemporaries and co-workers; contemporary newspapers and court documents; the writings of Gandhi’s children; and secret files kept by British Empire functionaries. Using this wealth of material in an exuberant, brilliantly nuanced and detailed narrative, Guha describes the social, political and personal worlds inside of which Gandhi began the journey that would earn him the honorific Mahatma: “Great Soul.” And, more clearly than ever before, he elucidates how Gandhi’s work in South Africa—far from being a mere prelude to his accomplishments in India—was profoundly influential in his evolution as a family man, political thinker, social reformer and, ultimately, beloved leader. In 1893, when Gandhi set sail for South Africa, he was a twenty-three-year-old lawyer who had failed to establish himself in India. In this remarkable biography, the author makes clear the fundamental ways in which Gandhi’s ideas were shaped before his return to India in 1915. It was during his years in England and South Africa, Guha shows us, that Gandhi came to understand the nature of imperialism and racism; and in South Africa that he forged the philosophy and techniques that would undermine and eventually overthrow the British Raj. Gandhi Before India gives us equally vivid portraits of the man and the world he lived in: a world of sharp contrasts among the coastal culture of his birthplace, High Victorian London, and colonial South Africa. It explores in abundant detail Gandhi’s experiments with dissident cults such as the Tolstoyans; his friendships with radical Jews, heterodox Christians and devout Muslims; his enmities and rivalries; and his often overlooked failures as a husband and father. It tells the dramatic, profoundly moving story of how Gandhi inspired the devotion of thousands of followers in South Africa as he mobilized a cross-class and inter-religious coalition, pledged to non-violence in their battle against a brutally racist regime. Researched with unequaled depth and breadth, and written with extraordinary grace and clarity, Gandhi Before India is, on every level, fully commensurate with its subject. It will radically alter our understanding and appreciation of twentieth-century India’s greatest man.
Book Synopsis The Gandhi Nobody Knows by : Richard Grenier
Download or read book The Gandhi Nobody Knows written by Richard Grenier and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Encyclopaedia Britannica by : Hugh Chisholm
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles by : Ved Mehta
Download or read book Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles written by Ved Mehta and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ved Mehta's brilliant Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles provides an unparalleled portrait of the man who lead India out of its colonial past and into its modern form. Travelling all over India and the rest of the world, Mehta gives a nuanced and complex, yet vividly alive, portrait of Gandhi and of those men and women who were inspired by his actions.
Book Synopsis The Dark Side of Gandhi by : Hari Pada Roychoudhury
Download or read book The Dark Side of Gandhi written by Hari Pada Roychoudhury and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a learning lesson for all political leaders of the World to see and learn how a villainous person can make fool the countrymen by having a Dress of half-naked FAKIR (in the words of Winston Churchill) with his ethics of “Non-Violence” bringing division, destruction, slaughter in millions and then the mankind with “Non-Violence” when United Nations Secretary commented a person is a man of peace of mankind.
Download or read book Great Soul written by Joseph Lelyveld and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, and rural poor. “A revelation. . . . Lelyveld has restored human depth to the Mahatma.”—Hari Kunzru, The New York Times Pulitzer Prize–winner Joseph Lelyveld shows in vivid, unmatched detail how Gandhi’s sense of mission, social values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance were shaped on another subcontinent—during two decades in South Africa—and then tested by an India that quickly learned to revere him as a Mahatma, or “Great Soul,” while following him only a small part of the way to the social transformation he envisioned. The man himself emerges as one of history’s most remarkable self-creations, a prosperous lawyer who became an ascetic in a loincloth wholly dedicated to political and social action. Lelyveld leads us step-by-step through the heroic—and tragic—last months of this selfless leader’s long campaign when his nonviolent efforts culminated in the partition of India, the creation of Pakistan, and a bloodbath of ethnic cleansing that ended only with his own assassination. India and its politicians were ready to place Gandhi on a pedestal as “Father of the Nation” but were less inclined to embrace his teachings. Muslim support, crucial in his rise to leadership, soon waned, and the oppressed untouchables—for whom Gandhi spoke to Hindus as a whole—produced their own leaders. Here is a vital, brilliant reconsideration of Gandhi’s extraordinary struggles on two continents, of his fierce but, finally, unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy, which more than six decades after his death still ensures his place as India’s social conscience—and not just India’s.
Book Synopsis The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi by : Mahatma Gandhi
Download or read book The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi written by Mahatma Gandhi and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In the Footsteps of Gandhi by : Catherine Ingram
Download or read book In the Footsteps of Gandhi written by Catherine Ingram and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Footsteps of Gandhi is a collection of original and soul-searching interviews with contemporary spiritual social activists. Whether discussing AIDS, apartheid, or the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, they embody the understanding that violence is not stopped by violence; violence is only ended by love. This revised edition features a new foreword by Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and author of Legacy of Love, an afterword by American book Award winner Michael Nagler; and a new introduction by the author.
Book Synopsis Why I Killed Gandhi by : Nathuram Godse
Download or read book Why I Killed Gandhi written by Nathuram Godse and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the nation was celebrating Independence from British Rule and singing all praises for the ‘Father of The Nation’ – Mahatma Gandhi, the news of his assassination came as a shock. He was shot in the chest three times while he was walking towards the prayer grounds at the Birla House, New Delhi. The man behind the assassination – Nathuram Godse was a well known nationalist. He was arrested at the crime scene and sentenced to death after a year long trial. The book contains the final speech given by Godse in the court, mentioning the reason behind the drastic step he took.
Book Synopsis Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography by : Pramod Kapoor
Download or read book Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography written by Pramod Kapoor and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pramod Kapoor, the founder and publisher of Roli Books (established in 1978), is a connoisseur of images. A sepia aficionado, he has over the course of his illustrious career conceived and produced award-winning books that have proven to be game changers in the world of publishing. Be it the hit ‘Then and Now’ series and the seminal Made for Maharajas, or even the internationally acclaimed New Delhi: The Making of a Capital. In 2016, he was conferred with the prestigious 'Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour), the highest civil and military award in France, for his contribution towards producing books that have changed the landscape of Indian publishing and to promoting India's tangible and intangible heritage within the country and abroad. His first book as author, Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography, is the result of years of painstaking research on a subject close to his heart. Kapoor is dedicated towards decoding Gandhi for the modern generation.
Book Synopsis Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 by : Ramachandra Guha
Download or read book Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 written by Ramachandra Guha and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening in July 1914, as Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa to return to India, Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1918 traces the Mahatma’s life over the three decades preceding his assassination. Drawing on new archival materials, acclaimed historian Ramachandra Guha follows Gandhi’s struggle to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India’s Hindus and Muslims, to end the pernicious practice of untouchability, and to nurture India’s economic and moral self-reliance. He shows how in each of these campaigns, Gandhi adapted methods of nonviolence that successfully challenged British authority and would influence revolutionary movements throughout the world. A revelatory look at the complexity of Gandhi’s thinking and motives, the book is a luminous portrait of not only the man himself, but also those closest to him—family, friends, and political and social leaders.
Book Synopsis Gandhi’s Printing Press by : Isabel Hofmeyr
Download or read book Gandhi’s Printing Press written by Isabel Hofmeyr and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper, Indian Opinion. In Gandhi’s Printing Press Isabel Hofmeyr provides an account of how this footnote to a career shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma.
Book Synopsis Gandhi and His Critics by : B.R. Nanda
Download or read book Gandhi and His Critics written by B.R. Nanda and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the evolution of Gandhi's ideas, his attitudes toward religion, the racial problem, the caste system, his conflict with the British, his approach to Muslim separatism and the division of India, his attitude toward social and economic change, his doctrine of nonviolence, and other key issues.
Book Synopsis Gandhi Under Cross-Examination by : G. B. Singh
Download or read book Gandhi Under Cross-Examination written by G. B. Singh and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
