Online version of biography by nanda

This is the complete and unabridged version of the biography in Oxford India Paperbacks for the first time.

Gandhi and his critics, ix, 178 pages ; 22 cm.

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Mahatma Gandhi: A Biography

January 15, 2017

The role of Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi in the psyche of Indian independence is often problematic. On the one hand, due to the hegemony of the Indian National Congress and particularly the Gandhi-Nehru family, in the political and administrative set-up of independent India has often meant the crowding out of other, non-Gandhian figures from the narrative of the Indian freedom struggle. On the other hand, to Gandhi's ideals of a village-based economy only lip-service has been paid, by the same political dispensation, that undertook a massive industrialisation drive post independence, though, in all fairness, the first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, always and quite publicly differed with Gandhi on this issue. In fact, what is often presented to the Indian public as Gandhian thought is only an oversimplified version of it, that creates misunderstandings and prevents people from truly appreciating the intellectual and, more importantly, ethical richness of Gandhian thought. Even Gandhi's own autobiographical works, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth and Satyagraha in South Africa: The Making of Mahatma Gandhi are more historical records than political tracts. His only truly political work, Hind Swaraj

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Mahatma Gandhi

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(Shri B. R. Nanda - former Vicepresident, Nehru Museum take up Library, Additional Delhi. His full-scale life of Mahatma Gandhi has been obtainable in Bharat, Britain topmost the U.S.A. and translated into Gallic, Spanish, Romance and a few other languages).

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Autobiography of a Yogi, Free Online

Ananda and Crystal Clarity Publishers are pleased to announce the online publication of the complete first edition of Paramhansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi.

Through this online version, we hope to make Yogananda’s spiritual classic freely available to seekers throughout the world. The print version of the 1946 Autobiography is available direct from Crystal Clarity Publishers through secure online ordering. We hope you enjoy this free gift of the first online edition.

Ananda was founded by Swami Kriyananda, a direct disciple of Yogananda. Kriyananda was inspired by his guru to start “World Brotherhood Colonies.” Ananda, and its sister colonies throughout the world, are the fulfillment of Yogananda’s dream. See Chapter 48, in this 1946 edition, to read Yogananda’s own words on World Brotherhood Colonies.

Autobiography of a Yogi is not an ordinary book. It is a spiritual treasure. To read its message of hope to all truthseekers is to begin a great adventure.

This is a verbatim reproduction of the original 1946 edition, complete with the original photos, many of them not seen since earlier editions. Although subsequent printings, reflecting revisions made after the Yogananda’s death in 1952, have sold over a million copies