Complete Biography of Mahatma Gandhi (Set of 3 Volumes)

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Gandhi was a creative man with immense potential and created history for himself and rest of the world to follow. Gandhi inspired masses and masses inspired Gandhi. Even after his death, Gandhi continues to attract the attention of scholars, social activists, media, policy-makers and dreamers not only in India but abroad too.

Under Gandhi's influence Martin Luther King in United States of America and Nelson Mandela in South Africa used non-violence for liberating people. Recently Gandhian techniques were successfully used in Egypt and other African Countries.

The Complete Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi is thus really a story of how he has evolved into a Mahatma. It is a depiction of minute details of Gandhi's spiritual journey.

Volume one is 'An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiment with Truth' written by Mahatma Gandhi and volume two is 'Satyagraha in South Africa'. To understand Gandhi, volume I and volume II is a must book. These two books are the primary source to know and understand the basic postulates and events in Gandhi's life till 1920.

Volume three The Chronological Biography of Mahatma Gandhi' provides minute details of his life.

Dr. Anil Dutta Mishra (b. 1967), a rare combination of activist and Gandhian scholar, started his career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Non-violence and Peace Studies, Jain Vishva Bharati University, Ladnun, Rajasthan.

Dr. Mishra has held the post of General Secretary of Indian Society of Gandhian Studies, Alliance for Sarvodaya, Member Board of Studies, Nagpur and Punjab Universities and is Member of Gandhian Studies Centre of different colleges and universities across India sponsored by UGC and Executive Member IIPA Regional Branch. He has authored/edited 30 books and published a number of research papers. Presently, he is Deputy Director, National Gandhi Museum, Rajghat, New Delhi.

Dr. Sohan Raj Tater (b. 1947) is former Vice Chancellor, Singhania University, Rajasthan and former Adviser, Jain Vishva Bharati University, Ladnun. He is Emeritus Professor in Trinity World University (U.K.), NAIU (U.S.A.), Jagannath University (Bangladesh),

Jodhpur National and Singhania University. He has travelled abroad-Japan, Germany, South Korea, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, USA and Bhutan.

Prof. Tater has written 35 books and hundred research articles published in National and International journals of repute. To acknowledge his contribution he has been awarded with Indira Gandhi Rastriya Akta Award, Samaj Bhushan, Yuvak Ratna, Indo-Nepal Harmony, Bharat Excellence Award, Jain Gyan Vigyan Manishi, Maharshi Patanjali International Award, Indo- Bhutan, Naturopathy Ratna and Yoga Ratna National Awards.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a simple and an ordinary man. In due course of time this simple man became a unique personality and iconic figure through his determined thought and course of action. Slowly and slowly he reached at the top where no body ever has reached. Like any human being he went to South Africa as an Attorney in search of livelihood and returned as Mahatma Gandhi, a great soul and a messenger of non-violence and peace. His patriotism and enlightened nationalism and anti-colonial struggle through non-violence means, gave new ray of hope to millions and millions of people across globe irrespective of caste, clan, class and gender.

Gandhi was a creative man with immense potential and created history for himself and rest of the world to follow. Gandhi inspired masses and masses inspired Gandhi. Even after his death, Gandhi continues to attract the attention of scholars, social activists, media, policy-makers and dreamers not only in India but abroad too.

Gandhi is remembered all-over the world for his love of peace, non-violence, truth, honesty, pristine purity and compassion and his success in using these instruments to bring together the entire Indian population and helping the country attain Independence from the colonial power. Later under Gandhi's influence, Martin Luther King in United States of America and Nelson Mandela in South Africa, used non-violence for liberating people. Recently Gandhian techniques were successfully used in Egypt and other African Countries.

To know in detail about Gandhi, one has to read the autobiography of Gandhi. Gandhi's autobiography covers the events of his life up to 1920. Gandhi started writing his autobiography towards the close of the year 1925 as a series of articles in his Gujarati Weekly 'Navajivan', running their serialized form from 29th November 1925 to 3rd February 1929.It took him more than three years and four months to finish it. The first article appeared on 29th November 1925 and the last was published in 3rd March 1929. It was written in Gujarati but its English translation simultaneously appeared in English Weekly 'Young India' done mainly by his Secretary, Mahadev Desai, with the approval of Gandhi. Later on it was published into two volumes, Volume I in 1927 and Volume II in 1929. Later, they were brought together in a single edition.

followed a series of events which culminated in my imprisonment at Yeravda,' Sjt Jairamdas, who was one of my fellow-prisoners there, asked me to put everything else on one side and finish writing the autobiography. I replied that I had already framed a programme of study for myself, and that I could not think of doing anything else until this course was complete. I should indeed have finished the autobiography had I gone through my full term of imprisonment at Yeravda, for there was still a year left to complete the task, when I was discharged. Swami Anand' has now repeated the proposal, and as I have finished the history of Satyagraha in South Africa, I am tempted to undertake the autobiography for Navajivan. The Swami wanted me to write it separately for publication as a book. But I have no spare time. I could only write a chapter week by week. Something has to be written for Navajivan every week. Why should it not be the autobiography ? The Swami agreed to the proposal, and here am I hard at work.

But a God-fearing friend had his doubts, which he shared with me on my day of silence. "What has set you on this adventure?", he asked. "Writing an autobiography is a practice peculiar to the West. I know of nobody in the East having written one, except amongst those who have come under Western influence. And what will you write? Supposing you reject tomorrow the things you hold as principles today, or supposing you revise in the future your plans of today, is it not likely that the men who shape their conduct on the authority of your word, spoken or written, may be misled? Don't you think it would be better not to write anything like an autobiography, at any rate just yet?"

This argument had some effect on me. But it is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography. But I shall not mind, if every page of it speaks only of my experiments. I believe, or at any rate flatter myself with the belief, that a connected account of all these experiments will not be without benefit to the reader. My experiments in the political field are now known, not only to India, but to a certain extent to the 'civilized' world. For me, they have not much value; and the title of 'Mahatma' that they have won for me has, therefore, even less. Often the title has deeply pained me; and there is not a moment I can recall when it may be said to have tickled 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. If the experiments are really spiritual, then there can be no room for self-praise. They can only add to my humility. The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.

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