Gandhi

Throughout his long and turbulent career as an Indian leader, first in South Africa and then in India, Gandhi sought to fulfill his religious aspirations through politics, and to reconcile politics with his private religious discipline.

A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointmentshis success in seizing Indias imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the cou

“I am not a visionary. I claim to be a practical idealist.” —Gandhi

Fischer's classic biography, the basis for the Academy Award-winning film "Gandhi," tells the extraordinary story of how one man's indomitable spirit inspired a nation to triumph over tyranny. Includes an 8-page photo insert. Revised reissue.

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.

For many people the world over, Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) is the greatest figure of the 20th century which, by all accounts, has been an era of the most unimaginable widespread violence, cruelty, hatred and destruction in all of human history.