Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2 1869–January 30, 1948) (Devanagari: ??????? ??????? ?????, Gujarati મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી) was a national icon who led the struggle for India's independence from British colonial rule, empowered by tens of millions of common Indians. Throughout his life he opposed any form of terrorism or violence, instead using only the highest moral standards. His philosophy of nonviolence, for which he coined the term satyagraha, has influenced national and international nonviolent resistance movements to this day, including the American Civil Rights Movement led by Martin Luther King.

References

• Gandhi: A Photo biography by Peter Rühe ISBN 0714892793
• The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas by Louis Fischer ISBN 1400030501
• Gandhi: A Life by Yogesh Chadha ISBN 0471350621
• Gandhi (1982), film by Richard Attenborough
• Gandhi and India: A Century in Focus by Sofri, Gianni (1995) ISBN 1900624125
• The Kingdom of God is Within You http://www.kingdomnow.org/withinyou.html by Leo Tolstoy (1894) ISBN 0803294042
• An Autobiography, or the Story of My Experiments with Truth M.K. Gandhi (1929)
• Patel: A Life by Rajmohan Gandhi