TY - BOOK AU - Gandhi, Mahatma TI - The Essential Writings of Mahatma Gandhi SN - 9780195632088 U1 - 954.035092 PY - 1993/// PB - Oxford India Paperbacks KW - Biography & Autobiography N2 - This selection of Gandhi's writings, taken from his letters, articles and books, represents the complete cross-section of his thought, from his early years as a young barrister in London, to his final days as sage and counsel to newly independent India. The selection not only reveals the growth of his ideas but also their essential internal integrity and consistency. Similarly, it illustrates the full facets of his personality, showing Gandhi to be both an ascetic mystic contemplative, as well as a man of action, and revealing aspects of his thought and character that may have previously been obscured ER -