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Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Mohandas Gandhi

"My purpose, " Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha, Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement (satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry; the principle was truth and the cry freedom. The life of Gandhi has given fire and fiber to freedom fighters and to the untouchables of the world; hagiographers and patriots have capitalized on Mahatma myths. Yet Gandi wrote: "Often the title has deeply pained me...But I should certainly like to narrate my experiments in the spiritual field which are known only to myself, and from which I have derived such power as I possess for working in the political field."

Book Details

  • Publisher: Dover Publications
  • Publish Date: Jun 1st, 1983
  • Pages: 480
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.43in - 5.40in - 0.96in - 1.13lb
  • EAN: 9780486245935
  • Categories: EasternAsia - South - GeneralPolitical

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