Oxford university press biography of mahatma gandhi

Mohandas Gandhi is well known as a political activist and pacifist who played a key role in achieving India's independence from Great Britain.

Although born in Porbandar, India, to parents of the Vaisya (merchant) caste, he was given a modern education and eventually studied law in London.

Mahatma Gandhi.

Mahatma Gandhi.

This now-classic biography of the great Indian leader not only recounts the events of his life but also offers a panoramic view of Indian history during the.

B R Nanda's biography, widely-acclaimed upon its publication in , has been established over time as a full, authoritative account.

Mahatma Gandhi: A Biography.

This widely-acclaimed biography has been established as an authoritative account.

After returning briefly to India, Gandhi went to South Africa in 1893, where he spent the next 20 years working to secure Indian rights. It was during this time that he experimented with and developed his basic philosophy of life.

Philosophically, Gandhi is best known for his ideas of satyagraha (truth-force) and ahimsa (nonharming). Intrinsic to the idea of truth-force is the correlation between truth and being; truth is not merely a mental correspondence with reality but a mode of existence.

Hence, the power of the truth is not what one argues for but what one is. He developed this idea in conjunction with the principle of nonviolence, showing in h