About the Author

Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas K. Gandhi) trained in England, practiced in South Africa as a lawyer, returned to India as a journalist, then as activist. He had a brief exchange of letters with Leo Tolstoy, who had distilled Jesus' message to five commandments, one of which was "resist not evil." Gandhi absorbed that thought and evolved the doctrine of satyagraha as a political strategy, a strategy that eventually won India's independence from Britain. Gandhi himself was assassinated shortly after independence, just as India was splitting in two - into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan, with great turmoil.