Book Details
| Author | M K Gandhi/Mahatma Gandhi |
| Publication | Navajivan Trust |
| Language | English |
| Category | Non-Fiction |
| Pages | 136 |
| Dimension | 18 x 12 x 0.5 cm |
| Weight | 105 gm |
| ISBN | 978-81-7229-070-2 |
| About Book | More than 110 years ago, two representatives of Indian settlers in Transvaal, South Africa, travelled to London to deliberate with British Government about their problems. One of them was Gandhiji. After the four-month stay they sailed back to South Africa. What came out of pen of the young Gandhi, then just 37, during the ten-day voyage on board the boat Kildonan Castle, was to become the preface to his own life that was to unfold. It was his classic work Hind Swaraj. It is to be remembered that it was six years before Gandhiji plunged into his career in India that he wrote those twenty chapters which were to become his roadmap of independent Indian's national life. This book is unique in more than one respect. This is the only book that was printed in Gandhiji's own handwriting, written in Gujarati language, his mother-tongue. Secondly, this is the only book that was written in Gujarati and then translated into English by Gandhiji himself. Thirdly, and most importantly, this small classic is the key to understand his thoughts which are still relevant, even after more that 110 years. |