A new selection of Gandhi's writings, with an important Introduction by a leading scholar of Gandhi's life, designed to introduce his life and thought to readers.

Drawn from the full range of Gandhi's published work--books, articles, broadcasts, interviews, letters--covering his thinking on religion and spirituality, on society and its problems, on politics and British rule, and on non-violence and civil disobedience.

Highlights Gandhi's belief that transformation in human life should be from the roots upwards, from the individual through to social and political relations.

Judith Brown's Introduction provides a succinct account of Gandhi's life and his ambiguous role in the Indian nationalist movement; it examines what kind of thinker and writer Gandhi was, and how he built a coherent body of thought which he attempted to put into daily practice.

Invaluable notes help the non-specialist reader understand the political context in which Gandhi was writing, the many allusions to his broad reading, and the people to whom he wrote and referred.

Detailed chronology, up-to-date bibliography, glossary, and index.