100 Best Gandhi Books of All Time (Updated for 2026)

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The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Mahatma Gandhi's Autobiography with a Foreword by the Gandhi Research Foundation

M. K. Gandhi

5.0

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.

...Identification with everything that lives is impossible without self-purification; without self-purification, the observance of the law of Ahimsa mu

Recommended by Barack Obama, Tim Cook, Cory Booker, and 2 others.

Barack Obama

Former USA President

According to the president’s Facebook page and a 2008 interview with the New York Times, this title is among his most influential forever favorites. [source]

Tim Cook

CEO/Apple

I have two books going right now: One is the Bobby Kennedy book “Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon,” by Larry Tye that just came out. The other is quite an old book. It’s a Gandhi book “Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth” that I got interested in because we went to the Gandhi museum when we were in India recently. I tend to like nonfiction and particularly reading about people and how they lived and how they fought, and what motivated them and their philosophy and so forth. [source]

Cory Booker

A profound read. [source]

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The Bhagavad Gita

Eknath Easwaran

4.7

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Recommended by Ryan Holiday, Bernard Tan, Bill Liao, and 1 others.

Ryan Holiday

Author

I read The Bhagavad Gita, which is something I wasn’t ready for before, but glad to finally understand. [source]

Bernard Tan

The “Tao Te King” by Lao Tzu probably resonated with me the strongest, but others like the “Art of War” by Sun Tzu, “Bhagavad Gita” or Zen Buddhist scriptures were also real eye-openers, even for a non-religious person like myself. [source]

Bill Liao

The human world occurs in language so best get good at it! [source]

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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Ramachandra Guha

4.7

A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together. An intricately researched and elegantly written epic history peopled with larger-tha

Recommended by Kaushik Basu, Lord Meghnad Desai, Pankhuri Pathak, and 1 others.

Kaushik Basu

As a book on recent India, it’s one of the best, maybe the best, that I’ve read – a mammoth amount of information, put together in a way that anybody can read. [source]

Lord Meghnad Desai

This is a very detailed account of India over the past 60 years in one single volume. It is pro-Nehru, so it is a very secular view. [source]

Pankhuri Pathak

If I were only allowed... One cuisine: Mughlai One author: J K Rowling One musician: Jagjeet Singh One season: Monsoon One city: Varanasi One game: Tekken 3 One book: India After Gandhi by Ramchandra Guha One movie: PS I Love You One colour: Black How about you? https://t.co/yG0cfCzRBj [source]

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The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Mahatma Gandhi, Louis Fischer, et al.

4.5

An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work & Ideas
Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma (“great soul”), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent, and is as important today as it was in the first part of the twentieth century, and during this nation’s own civil rights movement. Taken from Gandhi’s writings throughout his life. The Essential Gandhi i

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Autobiography of a Yogi

Yogananda Paramahansa

4.4

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Autobiography of a Yogi is one of the best-selling spiritual biographies of all time. The book is not merely read it is treasured and cherished by millions of spiritual seekers throughout the world.

Recommended by Steve Jobs, Marc Benioff, Dan Engle, and 2 others.

Steve Jobs

Founder/Apple

One book in particular stayed with Jobs his entire life, and Isaacson noted that it was the only book Jobs had downloaded on his iPad 2: “Autobiography of a Yogi,” “the guide to meditation and spirituality that he had first read as a teenager,” Isaacson writes, “then re-read in India and had read once a year ever since.” [source]

Marc Benioff

CEO/Salesforce

If you haven't read it, and if you want to understand Steve Jobs, it's a goood idea to dip into this book. [source]

Dan Engle

One of the more impactful books for me when I was living down in the jungle and experiencing more of the deeper reflections through the medicine space. [source]

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Long Walk To Freedom

Nelson Mandela

4.4

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Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country.

Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring p

Recommended by Barack Obama, Richard Branson, Bianca Belair, and 1 others.

Barack Obama

Former USA President

As 2018 draws to a close, I’m continuing a favorite tradition of mine and sharing my year-end lists. It gives me a moment to pause and reflect on the year through the books I found most thought-provoking, inspiring, or just plain loved. It also gives me a chance to highlight talented authors – some who are household names and others who you may not have heard of before. Here’s my best of 2018 list. [source]

Richard Branson

Founder/Virgin Group

Today is World Book Day, a wonderful opportunity to address this #ChallengeRichard sent in by Mike Gonzalez of New Jersey: Make a list of your top 65 books to read in a lifetime. [source]

Bianca Belair

For #BHM I will be sharing some of my favorite books by Black Authors 21st Book: Long Walk to Freedom -Nelson Mandela Read about his journey from childhood to the struggles of living under apartheid to becoming a freedom fighter & leader of his country. He is inspirational! https://t.co/bdvZu0kbh0 [source]

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Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World

Eknath Easwaran

4.4

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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948

Ramachandra Guha

4.4

The second and concluding volume of the definitive biography of one of the most abidingly influential--and controversial--men in world history.

Opening in July 1914, as Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa to return to India, Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1918 traces the Mahatma's life over the next three decades: his struggle to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious

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The Life of Mahatma Gandhi

Louis Fischer

4.4

Part 1: The end and the beginning
Death before prayers --
The beginnings of an extraordinary man --
"M.K. Gandi. Attorny-at-law --
Gandhi and the Gita --
Indian interlude --
Toward greatness --
A mob scene --
Gandhi goes to war --
The transformation begins --
September 11, 1906 --
Gandhi goes to jail --
Letter to a son --
Tolstoy and Gandhi --
The shape of things to come --
The victory --
Part 2: Gandhi in India,

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Gandhi Before India

Ramachandra Guha

4.3

Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in modern history.

Ramachandra Guha—hailed by Time as “Indian democracy’s preeminent chronicler”—takes us from Gandhi’s birth in 1869 through his upbringing in G

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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)

Suzanne Collins

4.3

WINNING MEANS FAME AND FORTUNE.
LOSING MEANS CERTAIN DEATH.
THE HUNGER GAMES HAVE BEGUN. . . .

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and once girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in

Recommended by Bill Gates and Robert Muchamore.

Bill Gates

CEO/Microsoft

On Bill Gates's reading list in 2012. [source]

Robert Muchamore

A brutal, exciting, action-based sci-fi novel. Hugely popular and excellent fun. [source]

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Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

Arthur Herman

4.3

In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.

They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous aristocratic family, Mohandas Gandhi to a pious mid

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The Art of Happiness

Dalai Lama

4.3

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Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and an increasingly popular speaker and statesman. What's more, he'll tell you that happiness is the purpose of life, and that "the very motion of our life is towards happiness." How to get

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The Words of Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi and Richard Attenborough

4.3

Gandhi's ideas are as meaningful today as they were during his long and inspiring life. His enlightening thoughts and beliefs, especially on violence and the atomic bomb, reveal his eloquent foresight about our contemporary world. The words of one of the greatest men of the twentieth century, chosen by the award-winning director Richard Attenborough from Gandhi's letters, speeches, and published w

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Annihilation of Caste

Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

4.2

“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste

B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar – a figure like W.E.B. Du Bois – offers

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Grandfather Gandhi

Arun Gandhi, Bethany Hegedus, Evan Turk

4.2

Mahatma Gandhi's grandson tells the story of how his grandfather taught him to turn darkness into light in this uniquely personal and vibrantly illustrated tale that carries a message of peace.

How could he "a Gandhi" be so easy to anger?

One thick, hot day, Arun Gandhi travels with his family to Grandfather Gandhi's village.

Silence fills the air, but peace feels far away for young Arun. When an old

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Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)

M. K. Gandhi

4.2

This volume focuses on Gandhi's vision of Satyagraha, whereby one appeals to reason and conscience, and puts an end to evil by converting the evil-doer. The book begins with an explanation of Satyagraha, and proceeds with detailed discussions of the self-training and courage necessary for Satyagraha.

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Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results

Ken Blanchard and Renee Broadwell

4.2

"The only way to create great relationships and results is through
servant leadership. It's all about putting other people first."
- from the foreword by John Maxwell

We've all seen the negative impact of self-serving leaders in every sector of our society. Not infrequently, they end up bringing down their entire organization. But there is another way: servant leadership.

Servant leaders lead by ser

Recommended by Byron L. Ernest.

Byron L. Ernest

I gave Servant Leadership in Action ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ on @amazon and @audible_com. You need to check out this great book on #servantleadership by @kenblanchard! #EdLeadership #leadership @weaveinfluence @teambuzzbuilder @beckyrbnsn https://t.co/CSYirnwVck [source]

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Why I Assassinated Mahatma Gandhi

Nathuram Vinayak Gods

4.2

Book contains the original statement given by Nathuram Godse (Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi).
Writer is real brother of Nathuram Godse himself and narrates his accounts of all the events and takes us through the day of assassination till the day Nathuram Godse was hanged.
Writer also puts forward crucial accounts of public and political opinions and reactions which were stirred up by assassination itse

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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire

ALEX VON TUNZELMANN

4.2

A re-creation of one of the key moments of twentieth-century history: the partition and independence of India, and the final days of the Raj.

Recommended by William Dalrymple.

William Dalrymple

Partition is a very complicated story. Many people have tried to tell it before, but this is far and away the best book I’ve read on Partition. I don’t think she had particular access to any brand-new material. She certainly didn’t get her hands on the material she would most have liked, the love letters between Nehru and Lady Mountbatten wife of Lord Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India. Because she does two things at once: she’s telling the love story of Mountbatten and Nehru – this extraordinary love triangle at the close of British India – and the extraordinary end to 300 years of what was often extremely violent imperial conquest. To have it ending with India’s first independent prime minister falling in love with the wife of the last viceroy – it’s an utterly amazing and extraordinary story. It’s not terribly clear whether their love was consummated at the time, although most people tend to believe that it probably was consummated at some point later. [source]

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See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

Valarie Kaur

4.2

How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves? Valarie Kaur—renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer—describes revolutionary love as the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. It enjoins us to see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You

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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932

William Manchester

4.2

s/t: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
When Winston Spencer Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Imperial Britain stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power. Yet within a few years, the Empire would hover on the brink of a catastrophic new era. This first volume of the best-selling biography of the adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman covers the first 58 years of th

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The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)

James Dashner

4.2

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If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human.

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.

Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.

Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out

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World Religions: The Great Faiths Explored and Explained (DK Compact Culture Guides)

John Bowker

4.2

Baffled by Buddhism? Confused by Catholicism? Mystified by Mysticism? Discover everything you need to know about the world's major religious faiths. A compelling and insightful guide for uncovering and understanding a variety of the world's major religions, this book is the perfect gift for thinkers, borrowers, religious studies and philosophy students.Learn new and profound information about a va

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The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling

Stephen Cope

4.2

An inspiring guide to finding your life's purpose--what spiritual teachers call dharma--through mindfulness and self-exploration.

Stephen Cope says that in order to have a fulfilling life you must discover the deep purpose hidden at the very core of your self. The secret to unlocking this mystery, he asserts, can be found in the pages of a two-thousand-year-old spiritual classic called the Bhagava

Recommended by Yanik Silver.

Yanik Silver

I like books maybe that not everyone has read, so the one that I would recommend is called "The Great Work of Your Life". [source]

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Who Was Gandhi?

Dana Meachen Rau, Who HQ, et al.

4.1

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in British-occupied India. Though he studied law in London and spent his early adulthood in South Africa, he remained devoted to his homeland and spent the later part of his life working to make India an independent nation.

Calling for non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights around the worl

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Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm

Kazu Haga

4.1

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Be the Change: A Grandfather Gandhi Story

Arun Gandhi, Bethany Hegedus, Evan Turk

4.1

In this breathtaking companion to the award-winning Grandfather Gandhi, Arun Gandhi, with Bethany Hegedus, tells a poignant, personal story of the damage of wastefulness, gorgeuously illustrated by Evan Turk.

At Grandfather Gandhi’s service village, each day is filled, from sunrise to sunset, with work that is done for the good of all. The villagers vow to live simply and non-violently. Arun Gandhi

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The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi, M. S. Deshpande, et al.

4.1

Mahatma Gandhi became famous as the leader of the Indian independence movement, but he called himself “a man of God disguised as a politician.” The Way to God demonstrates his enduring significance as a spiritual leader whose ideas offer insight and solace to seekers of every practice and persuasion. Collecting many of his most significant writings, the book explores the deep religious roots of Ga

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The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers

Eric Weiner

4.1

The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Nietzsche, Thoreau to Gandhi—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times.

We contemplate for the same reasons we travel: to see the world from a different perspective,

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Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

Erik H. Erikson

4.1

In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant non-violence and India became the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience.

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Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations

Michael Walzer

4.1

From the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai Massacre, from the wars in the Balkans through the first war in Iraq, Michael Walzer examines the moral issues surrounding military theory, war crimes, and the spoils of war. He studies a variety of conflicts over the course of history, as well as the testimony of those who have been most directly involved--participants, decision makers, and victims.

Recommended by Cécile Fabre and Mary Kaldor.

Cécile Fabre

I should say that I disagree with many of the claims that Walzer makes in the book [source]

Mary Kaldor

There is a long history of literature on what counts as a just war. [source]

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The Kingdom of God Is Within You

Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett

4.1

Banned in Russia, Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You was deemed a threat to church and state. The culmination of a lifetime's thought, it espouses a commitment to Jesus's message of turning the other cheek. In a bold and original manner, Tolstoy shows his readers clearly why they must reject violence of any sort—even that sanctioned by the state or the church—and urges them to look within

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The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The ... Kind Youth and Correspondences with Gandhi)

Leo Tolstoy

4.1

The Men Who Killed Gandhi

Manohar Malgonkar

4.1

The men who killed Gandhi by Manohar Malgaonkar takes readers back into the pages of Indian history during the time of the Partition, featuring the murder plot and assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. The men who killed Gandhi is a spellbinding Non fictional recreation of the events which led to India’s Partition, the eventual assassination of Gandhi, and the prosecution of those who were involved in

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Ordinary People Change the World Collection 8 books (I am . . . Helen Keller ; Jane Goodall ; Gandhi ; Sacagawea ; Neil Armstrong ; Jim Henson ; Martin Luther King Jr ; Harriet Tubman )

Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos

4.1

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All Men Are Brothers

Mohandas K. Gandhi and Krishna Kripalani

4.1

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Mahatma Gandhi: How One Passionate Peacemaker Gently Shook the World

in60Learning

4.1

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The Festival of Vision and Fire (Faerie Festival Series Book 2)

Dr. Jernail Singh Anand

4.1

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Stronger Than Death: How Annalena Tonelli Defied Terror and Tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa

Rachel Pieh Jones

4.1

Somalia's Mother Teresa chose love over fear.

Amid a volatile mix of disease, war, and religious fundamentalism in the Horn of Africa, what difference could one woman make? Annalena Tonelli left behind career, family, and homeland anyway, moving to a remote Muslim village in northern Kenya to live among its outcasts - desert nomads dying of tuberculosis, history's deadliest disease.

"I am nobody,"

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Bhagavad Gita, The Holy Book of Hindus: Original Sanskrit Text with English Translation & Transliteration [ A Classic of Indian Spirituality ]

Sushma

4.1

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Living Love, The Yoga of Yama & Niyama: Timeless Teachings for Transformation and Awakening (How to Live a Spiritual Life Series)

Maetreyii Ma

4.1

Living Love: The Yoga of Yama & Niyama is a practical and spiritually rich guide to the ethical foundations of yoga and their power to transform daily life. Drawing on the ancient teachings of Yama and Niyama, Maetreyii Ma Nolan brings together yoga philosophy, psychological insight, meditation, and compassionate self-reflection to help readers live with greater clarity, integrity, and love.In cle

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The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire

Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed

M. K. Gandhi

4.1

Bhagavad Gita is the manifestation of the entire Hindu religion in one book and the quintessential translation done by none other than the Mahatma, captures the text in its sense and spirit.The Bhagavad Gita presents a synthesis of the Brahmanical concept of Dharma, theistic bhakti, the yogic ideals of liberation through jnana, and Samkhya philosophy. Numerous commentaries have been written on the

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Gandhi on Non-Violence

Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton

4.1

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Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

Katherine Frank

4.1

On the morning of October 31, 1984, as she walked through her garden, smiling, with hands raised and palms pressed together in the traditional Indian namaste greeting, Indira Nehru Gandhi was assassinated by her own bodyguards. She died as she had lived, surrounded by men, yet isolated. It was a violent end to a life of epic drama.
Here is the first popular biography of one of the world's most inf

Recommended by Kaushik Basu.

Kaushik Basu

This is a real page-turner. It’s really an account of Indira Gandhi as a person and her complexity as a leader. [source]

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Waiting for the Mahatma

R. K. Narayan

4.1

Sriram is twenty. As a mark of his coming of age his grandmother allows his the pass-book to his savigns in the local bank, but Sriram is growing up in other ways, too, and an enchanting and unpredictable girl leads him into the entourage of Mahatma Gandhi.

These are the opening events in R K Narayan's novel. It is the finest thing he has yet achieved, and his story of the triumphs and tragedies of

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The 8 Laws of Change: How to Be an Agent of Personal and Social Transformation

Stephan A. Schwartz

4.1

Scientifically based strategies for enacting successful and enduring change on personal, societal, and global levels, no matter what your background

• 2016 Nautilus Silver Award

• Shares the stories of people who have changed history, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Ben Franklin, and Gandhi, detailing how they used the 8 laws of change

• Based on more than 16 years of scientific and historical res

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Gandhi

Shirer

4.1

At the beginning of the 1930s, historian William L. Shirer was sent to India by the Chicago Tribune to cover the rise of the Independence Movement. During this time Shirer was privileged to observe Mahatma Gandhi as he launched the Civil Disobedience Campaign and to enjoy his personal friendship and confidence.

In this fascinating memoir, Shirer writes perceptively and unforgettably about Gandhi's

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A Week With Gandhi

Louis Fischer, Mahatma Gandhi, Kano Gandhi

4.1

Additional Photographs Taken By D. G. Tendulkar.

Roosevelt Montás

4.0

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All My Noble Dreams and Then What Happens (Rosalind of the Raj, #2)

Gloria Whelan

4.0

Rosalind is caught between two worlds as Gandhi’s nonviolent revolution takes hold in this standalone companion to Small Acts of Amazing Courage.

Rosalind inhabits two worlds in 1920s India. There is the world of her heritage—English to the core, with a strict father who is a major in the British Indian Army, a muted mother, and a tutor to educate her within the walls of the luxurious estate her fa

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A Higher Standard of Leadership: Lessons from the Life of Gandhi

Keshavan Nair

4.0

In these times of increasing cynicism about the quality of leadership we can expect to aspire to, Keshavan Nair offers a pragmatic guide based on the concepts of Gandhi exemplified. In simple and direct language, Nair explores how businesspeople can make decisions, set goals, and implement actions that are guided by the spirit of service. Photos. Web site promo: (http: //www.readersndex.com).

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Gandhi: A Life Inspired

Lynn M. Hamilton and Wyatt North

4.0

It has become a cliche to say that one person can make a difference, but the life of Mahatma Gandhi confronts us with the enduring truth of that statement.It is impossible to say exactly what moved people to revere and follow him and be imprisoned and beaten on his behalf in the thousands. No doubt, his ever gentle demeanor had a hand in that. His perpetual grace and joy, even in the face of terri

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The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons from My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi

Arun Gandhi

4.0

Discover ten vital and extraordinary life lessons from one of the most important and influential philosophers and peace activists of the twentieth century—Mahatma Gandhi—in this poignant and timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as recounted by Gandhi’s grandson, Arun Gandhi. In the current troubled climate, in our country and in the world, these lessons are needed more than eve

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Mahatma Gandhi: 365 Selected Quotes on Love, Life, and Truth

Nico Neruda

4.0

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Essence of the Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary Guide to Yoga, Meditation, and Indian Philosophy

Eknath Easwaran

4.0

The Bhagavad Gita opens with a crisis — Prince Arjuna despairs on the battlefield, unsure if he should fight his kinsmen in a dreadful war. For Easwaran, the Gita’s epic battle represents the war in our own hearts and Arjuna’s anguish reflects the human condition: torn between opposing forces, confused about how to live. Sri Krishna’s timeless guidance, Easwaran argues, can shed light on our dilem

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Selected Political Writings

Mahatma Gandhi and Dennis Dalto

4.0

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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture

Gaiutra Bahadur

4.0

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A Taste of Freedom: Gandhi and the Great Salt March

Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, Giuliano Ferri

4.0

No one ever forgets their first taste of freedom.

Gandhi's famous Salt March shook the foundations of the British Empire and the world, showing the strength of a people united in peace to fight for freedom. Gandhi's march had a significant effect on changing world and British attitudes towards Indian independence, and inspired the use of non-violence in other protest movements, like the US Civil Ri

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Moral Leadership for a Divided Age: Fourteen People Who Dared to Change Our World

David P. Gushee

4.0

Great moral leaders inspire, challenge, and unite us--even in a time of deep divisions. Moral Leadership for a Divided Age explores the lives of fourteen great moral leaders and the wisdom they offer us today. Through skillful storytelling and honest appraisals of their legacies, we encounter exemplary human beings who are flawed in some ways, gifted in others, but unforgettable all the same.

The a

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The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj

Anita Anand

4.0

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What Gandhi Says

Norman G Finkelstein

4.0

What Gandhi says about nonviolence, resistance and courage. There has been widespread recognition of the contribution of the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi to the tactics underpinning the revolutionary upsurges in the Middle East and the burgeoning Occupy movements in Europe and the United States. But few have examined what Gandhi actually said about the relationship between nonviolence, resistance a

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A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul

Leo Tolstoy

4.0

This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life's last years. Widely read in prerevolutionary Russia, banned and forgotten under Communism; and recently rediscovered to great excitement, A Calendar of Wisdom is a day-by-day guide that illuminates the path of a life worth living with a brightn

Recommended by Ryan Holiday.

Ryan Holiday

Author

It’s basically a collection of Tolstoy’s favorite passages from the ancient and classic texts, with excellent supplements from his own considerable wisdom. Each day draws on Chinese, Jewish, Stoic, Christian, Indian and Arabic sources (he quotes everyone from Emerson to Marcus Aurelius to Lao-Tzu) and manages to give good, actionable advice from all of these differing schools. It’s no wonder the Communists banned and suppressed this book, because it challenges everything they were trying to deny about human nature and the human experience. This book should be much, much, more popular and I promise your mornings will be improved if you start them with it. [source]

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Social and Political Philosophy: Readings from Plato to Gandhi

John Somerville and Ronald Santoni

4.0

An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, Marx and Engels, Hitler, Gandhi, and others.

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Speeches That Changed the World

Simon Sebag Montefiore

4.0

Comprehensively updated with many new speeches including Earl Spencer's lament to 'The extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana', Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech of 1956 signalling the beginning of the end of Stalinist Russia, Patrick Pearse's rousing funeral oration that fanned the flames of the Easter Rising, Kevin Rudd's historic apology to Australia's mistreated Aborigines and Barack Obama's mo

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Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction

Bhikhu Parekh

4.0

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest. He led the Indian National Congress party in three major campaigns against British rule,

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Incarnations: A History of India in 50 Lives

Sunil Khilnani

4.0

'Incarnations makes the mind fly across time, place and history. You may smile as, mentally, you walk alongside Khilnani up some flinty slope. You will keep thinking about what he said long after' Daily Telegraph

For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. Sunil Khilnani's Incarnations fills that space: recapturing the human dime

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Mohandas Gandhi (Fluent Plus)

Dona Rice;William Rice

4.0

Mohandas Gandhi was one of the world's great leaders who used nonviolent resistance to protest against the caste system. Readers will learn all about his life, Hinduism, and the amazing things he accomplished in this inspiring nonfiction biographical title. Children will be fascinated and enlivened through interesting facts, vivid images, a helpful timeline, and a glossary that assists in improvin

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Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India

Stanley Wolpert

4.0

Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of chaos, hatred, and war that has lasted over half a century.
Ranging from the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in

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Gandhi for Kids: His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities

Ellen Mahoney

4.0

With his wire-rimmed glasses, homespun cloths, and walking stick, Mohandas Gandhi is an international symbol of nonviolence, freedom, simplicity, and peace. Tracing Gandhi's evolution from a shy boy in India to a courageous, world-traveling spiritual and political leader who worked tirelessly to help India achieve independence from England, Gandhi for Kids will inspire young readers to make connec