Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world.
The son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised in a Hindu Bania community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa, using new techniques of non-violent civil disobedience that he developed. Returning to India in 1915, he set about organizing peasants to protest excessive land-taxes. A lifelong opponent of "communalism" (i.e. basing politics on religion) he reached out widely to all religious groups. He became a leader of Muslims protesting the declining status of the Caliphate. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj鈥攖he independence of India from British domination. His spiritual teacher was the Jain philosopher/poet Shrimad Rajchandra.
It's not common for me as an atheist to read books about God!, but this book is very special for me. I think this book is all about the very important point that "Truth is God". There're many definition for God. Almost all of them have serious flaws (at least in my opinion). But this definition for God, or maybe better to consider it as a definition for Truth, almost acceptable if we don't say it's fully acceptable. I'm very happy for reading this book and I'm gonna read it again.