A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
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The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
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The Gospel in Brief Leo Tolstoy
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 6 Edward Gibbon
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A History of the Sikhs: From the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej by Joseph Davey Cunningham
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The Kingdom of God is Within You Leo Tolstoy
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Unto This Last John Ruskin
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Isis Unveiled: Secrets of the Ancient Wisdom Tradition Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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The Key to Theosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
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The Mysterious Universe by James Hopwood Jeans
[Read in Yeravda prison (diary entry December 31, 1932) |
Zoroastrianism: The Religion Of The Good Life by Rustam Masan
(In his letter to Masani, October 19, 1938, Gandhi mentions that he was reading the book at that time) |
The Spirit of Islam: A History of the Evolution and Ideals of Islam by Syed Ameer Ali
Read during his imprisonment in Yeravda |
History of European Morals: From Augustus to Charlemagne by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
(Read in Yeravda prison, August 1923.) |
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
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What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
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A Letter to a Hindu by Leo Tolstoy
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Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
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From Adam's Peak to Elephanta by Edward Carpenter
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The Iliad by Homer
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The Mystics of Islam by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
(Yeravda prison diary entry of September 30,1923) |
Civilisation : Its Cause and Cure by Edward Carpenter
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What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy
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Guilliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Round The World by Andrew Carnegie
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
Where there is love there is life. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. |
Sources
- http://www.gandhi-manibhavan.org/eduresources/bks_read_by_g.htm
- https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/18789.Books_Read_by_Gandhi
- https://www.tatacliq.com/que/12-novels-mahatma-gandhi-enjoyed/#/test/2
- http://favobooks.com/politicians/119-mahatma-gandhi-top-8-books-that-influenced-the-leader.html
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Marche_sel.jpg
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinhin/14817971570