MAHATMA GaxDIU's ToeAs."—By C.F.
Andrews, London: George Allen and Unwin, Led.
This book is intended to explain the main principles and ideas for which Mahatma Gandhi has stood in the course of his eventful career. Born in the little seaport town on the coast of Kathiawar called Porbunder, the boy in-hented from his devout Hindu mother her deep religious faith. The turning-point in his early days came when he was able to go to England to finish his education. Those years in England were among the most eventful of his whole life; he suffered from solitude and nearly lost his bear-
mothd's influence kept him ngs, june after time, But his straight in the midst of temptations. After some years of comparative failure in India, as far as wordly affairs were concerned, he was invited to go to South Africa in order to undertake a Inwsuit on behalf of a Muhammadan client, He had no intention whatever of staying. However he stayed and was admitted to the Bar in South Africa. At one time his income rose to over £3,000 a year. put forward by Tolstoy came home th such inner strength of convietion that he determined to abandon everything and give himself up to a life of poverty wherein he could practise ascetic self-control and entire non-violence in all his actions. He went back to India at the beginning of the year 1915.
'The great Gandhi's political lif year 1920, when, After repeated failure to' obtain any clear sign of repentance for the wrongs that had been done to his country at Amritsar, and for the broken promises made to the Indian Mussal-mans during the War, he declared hho could no longer ce-operate with the British Government. He then started what was called the Non-Ca-operation Movement. The partial failure of that movement, owing to an outbreak of violence at Bombay brought with it a reaetion and he was himself prepared to retire from the struggle when ho was arrested and imprisoned. He was released in 1924 owing to the fact that his health had become very seriously impaired.
The outstanding event after this was the fast of twenty-one days which he undertook at Delhi towards the end of the year 1924, order to stop the rioting between Hindus and Mussalmans.
No more impressive even has: happened in recent Indian history than this fast. In more recent} years his retirement from active participation in current—polities has only made his spiritual hold fon the masses of the Indian people firmer than ever. Truth and sincerity are in every line of his face and seem to demand the same truth and sincerity in return, One could never be artificial with such a man for his keen vision penetrates all outer wrappings. He says: "My patriotism is both exclusive and inclusive. It is exclusive in the sense that in all humility I confine my attention to the land of my birth; but it is inclusive in the sense that my _not of a competitive first edition of Mr.
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