Mahatma Gandhi

A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb. In 1938, Mahatma Gandhi wrote a bracing and, at times, discomfiting essay on the claims of justice and nationhood in Palestine. Profoundly informed by its author's sympathy for the plights of Jews and Arabs alike, this text is also uncompromising in its advocacy of the...

The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi is based upon talks given by Mahatma Gandhi between 24 February and 27 November 1926 at the Satyagraha Ashram in Ahmedabad, India. During this time, a period when Gandhi had withdrawn from mass political activity, he devoted much of his time and energy to translating the Gita from Sanskrit into his native Gujarati. As...