
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant non-violence and India became the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 1993
- ISBN-13
- 9780393347364
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- GandhiNonviolenceIndian independence movement
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionWonMajor(1970)
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionWonMajor(1970)
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