Books on mahatma gandhi biography

Nagler Introduction 4. Third class in Indian railways by Mahatma Gandhi 3. Non-Violent Resistance by Mahatma Gandhi 4.

Books on mahatma gandhi biography

Parel Editor 3. Health Guide by Mahatma Gandhi 3. Ente Sathyanweshana Pareekshanangal by Mahatma Gandhi really liked it 4. India of My Dreams by Mahatma Gandhi 3. Key to Health by Mahatma Gandhi 3. Freedom's Battle by Mahatma Gandhi 4. Prayer by Mahatma GandhiMichael N. Nagler IllustratorArva Gandhi Illustrator 3. So yes, the British were embarrassed in ways in which maybe a more insensitive or callous ruler might not have been.

From about —6, well before Gandhi returned to India, Keir Hardie committed the Labour book on mahatma gandhi biography to independence. Then, as the Labour party grew in influence within Great Britain through the s and s, there was an influential constituency of politicians and intellectuals supporting the Indian freedom movement.

So it is true that nonviolence had a better chance against the British as compared to the Dutch in Indonesia or the French in Vietnam. He is trying to shame the oppressor in preference to obliterating the oppressor out of existence. Gandhi is saying, If I were to shoot the colonial official who is oppressing me, it means I am per cent right and he is per cent wrong.

Otherwise how am I justified in taking his life? Let me stoke that. Let me try this and that and then the guy can come around and we can reach a kind of mutual respect and understanding. First, a small factual correction: the author, J T F Jordens, is more accurately described as a lapsed Belgian Jesuit. He started as a Jesuit, came to India, joined a church and then left the church.

He got interested in Gandhi, became a scholar and ended up a professor in Australia. This is partly accidental, but if you look at the three books by foreigners on my list, one is by an American who lived in Russia, which is Fischer. The second is by an American who studied in England, which is Dalton. The third is by a Belgian who ended up teaching in Australia.

I wanted people with a non-parochial, non-xenophobic understanding of the world. He did once enter a famous temple in south India, when they admitted Untouchables for the first time. Other than that, he was a Hindu who never entered temples. He was a Hindu, but he radically challenged some of the prejudices of the Hindu tradition, particularly the practice of untouchability.

He was a Hindu whose political program was that Hindus should not oppress Muslims and Muslims must have equal rights in an independent India. Five Books interviews are expensive to produce. If you're enjoying this interview, please support us by donating a small amount. Now, too, we live in a time of intellectuals disparaging religion, with an arrogant atheism on one side and book on mahatma gandhi biography fundamentalism on the other.

Gandhi gives us a way out of this false choice. But, at the same time, there is no one true path to God. Gandhi says, Accept your fate. Your parents, your grandparents were Hindus for many generations. But think about what you can learn from other faiths. Cultivate friendships with Christians and Muslims and Jews and Parsis. If you see your faith in the mirror of another, you may find out its imperfections.

I was brought up an atheist. When I got interested in Gandhi, I thought, This religious business is all a distraction. What is really relevant about Gandhi, is equal rights for the low castes, equality for women, nonviolence, democracy and economic self-reliance. Let me try and have Gandhi without faith. He writes to Gandhi saying that his bishop has excommunicated him.

You can still communicate with Jesus without being in a church. That is why it is on my list. And ultimately we should point out that Gandhi was killed by a Hindu for being too good to Muslims. Let me tell you a story. Some years ago an American scholar called Joseph Lelyveld wrote a book suggesting Gandhi was gay. Both were followers of Tolstoy and both wanted to be celibate.

His clinching piece of evidence was a letter that Gandhi wrote to Kallenbach when Gandhi was in London, temporarily separated from his friend and housemate. He wrote to Kallenbach saying, There is a bottle of Vaseline on my mantelpiece and it reminds me of you. The American scholar jumped to a very quick conclusion, but the bottle of Vaseline was actually there because both Gandhi and Kallenbach had taken a Tolstoyan vow not to wear shoes.

They walked barefoot or in slippers and in London he was getting corns under his feet. But this was not, as is the case in many countries around the world, an eight-year-old child being shipped off to a seminary and told to become a priest. Kallenbach was a successful architect, Gandhi was a successful lawyer. They were both inspired by Tolstoy, the successful novelist, to give up everything and live the simple life.

But the point is that celibacy is there in Hinduism and also in Jainism, an allied religion to which Gandhi was pretty close, because as a native Gujarati he had many close Jain friends. Jain monks are absolutely committed to this kind of sexual abstinence. So it was a core part of his religious beliefs. Yes, but that was for pragmatic political reasons.

He was working in a very conservative society, where he was getting Hindus and Muslims together on a political platform for the first time. If there had been intermarriage it would have derailed the political movement, because the Islamic preachers would have accused his son of capturing a Muslim girl and so on. This was in the s, so a hundred years ago.

That leads us nicely to your last book. Gandhi was a man who always put the political and the public before his private life. And, as you said earlier, the result is that he treated his family pretty badly. The last book on your list is a life of his son Harilal. Tell me about his son and this book. To, again, put things in context, Gandhi married very young.

He was married in his teens and he had his first child, Harilal, in when he was not even Shortly after his Harilal is born, Gandhi goes to London to get a law degree. The correct answer is D. He is most well known as the author of an eight-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi, titled Mahatma: Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. His ideology of truth and non-violence influenced many including Martin Luther and Nelson Mandela.

His professions include lawyer studied law at London,politician, activist, and writer. Trusted by 6. More Books and Authors Questions Q1. Which of the following pair is not correctly matched? The author of 'Lalit Vigraharaj' drama was. Who authored the book, "An Era of Darkness"? Gandhi Compiled by : S. Email:jitnavjivan10 gmail. Gandhi Compiled by: : H.

Written By: : M. Gandhi Edited by : R. Gandhi to Esther Faering. Editor : Dr. Mathur Asst. Editor: : Dr. Edited by : G. By : Carlos G. By : Dr. Pathak Published by: Dr. By: : Richard B. By: : Michael N. By: : A. Written By: : Dr. Gandhi Compiled By: : R. Gandhi Compiled By: : M. By: : S.