Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World: A review

biographical account of Mahatma Gandhi in his work Gandhi: His

Life and Message for the World (1954). The essay first summarizes briefly Fischer's account of Gandhi's life and message. The better part of the paper is devoted to an analysis of the Fischer bio-graphy. The essay concludes with a brief summary of what has been said.

The title of Fischer's book well describes what the author

wishes to accomplish: he wants to give an account of both the life

and the message of India's revered holy man, who played such an

important and dominant role in the life of the nation in the

thirty years before it achieved independence on August 15, 1947.

In this brief summary of Fischer's book we record the principal

events of Mahatma Gandhi's life. The following section devotes

more thought to his methods and his message to fellow Indians and to the world.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar a seaside town on the Kathiawar Peninsu1a in western India in October, 1869.

Karamchand Gandhi, the Mahatma's father, was a politician who served as prime minister in the small realms of Porbandar, Rajkot and Wankaner, all in the west of India; his mother, Putlibai, was a devout and illiterate Hindu woman. Fischer notes that M.K. Gandhi was a shy boy and young man, possessed of a substantial temper. He was not an exceptional student nor was he above rebelling as a young man against the str

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an C. Smuts which annulled the three-pound tax on former indentured Indian immigrants who stayed in South Africa (1914); the protracted campaign of non-cooperation which Gandhi led after passage of the restrictive Rowlatt Acts and the Amristar massacre of 1919; the Salt March on 1930; the trips throughout India on the eve of independence to quell the rioting between Hindus and Moslems. These events are but a few of the incidents in which Gandhi played a major role. For more than fifty years, the Mahatma's life was an endless round of prayer, fasting, planning with his confreres, often exhausting and disputatious, leading demonstrations, serving time in jail (six years in all after returning to India). Though Fischer does dwell somewhat on a number of historical events, his real interest is in the remarkable development of the personality and ideas of Gandhi himself. The author makes it quite evident that Gandhi, by any measure, was a most remarkable man who never ceased to grow and reach out beyond national, racial and religious boundaries to bring about a just and peaceful social order. In Fischer's account of the Mahatma's life he devotes much attention to Gandhi's personal development. Gandhi was inherently shy, yet he b
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