Mohandas K. Gandhi: The Last Eighteen Years - Brossura

This volume is intended to complement Gandhi s Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Picking up the story after the events in the Autobiography, it begins with the Salt March in 1930, Gandhi s most well-known and successful nonviolent civil disobedience campaign, and ends with his last writings before his assassination in 1948. Using Gandhi s writings, as well as writings of associates, personal friends, and opponents, the book highlights major themes in Gandhi s life s work, including economic reform, nonviolent noncooperation, satyagraha, swaraj, Hindu-Muslim unity, eradication of oppressive treatment of untouchables, and the experience of God and faith. The selections illuminate who Gandhi was and what he accomplished. Reviews: I like this anthology for at least three reasons: one, its selections; two, the editors notes that provide context and explanation; and, three, the editors ability to present both the political and the ethical Gandhi. -- Rajmohan Gandhi, Research Professor, Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Sterling P. Olmsted, Ruth Olmsted and Mike Heller filled a gap in Mohandas Gandhi's life that gives details of social change at a crucial time in Indian History. They illustrate how Gandhi experimented with truth until the end of his life. It is the principle that Gandhi lived by, doing what could be done to create a better society for the Indian community he lived in. But his message is global. The editors have brought his teaching and spirit to us and our struggles again today. They offer valuable insight for those who are interested in nonviolence. -- Mubarak Awad, President/Director of Nonviolence International From back cover: This collection is a gift to the millions of us who revere but find it difficult to understand Mahatma Gandhi. Along with the nearly simultaneous reissue of Eknath Easwaran s Gandhi the Man, it re-presents to a world sinking in violence the compelling words of one who conquered all violence in h