{"history":[],"article":{"id":"7ef0fc7f-7653-4164-b531-7e177011e692","title":"Gandhi the Man","slug":"gandhi-the-man","content":":::summary\n![Gandhi the Man](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Gandhi-the-Man-2011-dpi50.jpg)\n**Name:** Gandhi the Man \n**Image Size:** 200px \n**Author:** [Eknath Easwaran](https://bliptext.com/articles/eknath-easwaran) \n**Language:** English (original); [Chinese](https://bliptext.com/articles/simplified-chinese), Czech, Dutch, German, [Indonesian](https://bliptext.com/articles/bahasa-indonesian), Japanese, Korean, [Kurdish](https://bliptext.com/articles/kurdish-languages), [Persian](https://bliptext.com/articles/persian-language) \n**Genre:** Politicians - India - Biography \n**Publisher:** [Nilgiri Press](https://bliptext.com/articles/nilgiri-press); others \n**Pub Date:** 1973; 1978; 1991; 2011; others \n**Pages:** 200 (2011); 179 (1997); 186 (1978); 157 (1973). \n**Isbn:** 978-1-58638-055-7 \n:::\n\n# \n**Gandhi the Man** is a biography of [Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi](https://bliptext.com/articles/mohandas-karamchand-gandhi) written by [Eknath Easwaran](https://bliptext.com/articles/eknath-easwaran).\nThe book was originally published in the United States in 1973.\nSeveral subsequent expanded editions have been published.\nNon-English editions have also been published in several languages.\n\n# Topics covered\nAll US editions of Gandhi the Man contain four major parts entitled 1) The Transformation, 2) The Way of Love, 3) Mother and Child, and 4) Gandhi the Man.\nAll US editions also contain numerous photographs.\nMore recent editions contain a foreword by [Michael Nagler](https://bliptext.com/articles/michael-nagler) and an Appendix by Timothy Flinders entitled \"How Satyagraha Works.\"\nThe 4th edition (2011) contains several pages of maps and chronology (timelines), and additional background notes.\n\n# Reviews and influence\nReviews have appeared in the [New York Post](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-york-post),[Bill McKibben](https://bliptext.com/articles/bill-mckibben) (21 May 1989).\n[New York Post](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-york-post), pp. 4-5.\nReview of Gandhi the Man, A Man to Match His Mountains, Meditation, The Mantram Handbook, and Conquest of Mind.\nthe [San Francisco Chronicle](https://bliptext.com/articles/san-francisco-chronicle), [The History Teacher](https://bliptext.com/articles/the-history-teacher), and elsewhere.\nIn the New York Post, [Bill McKibben](https://bliptext.com/articles/bill-mckibben) wrote that Gandhi the Man \"seems at first glance like pure hagiography, most notable for the wonderful photographs it contains. But it isn't a picture book - in fact, in very few words, it comes closer to giving some sense of how Gandhi saw his life than any other account I have read. From the outside, his life looked like a political drama... But from the inside, Easwaran argues quite persuasively, it looked quite different. Gandhi mastered his own life - took charge of his mind and his body. As a result he knew no fear, only great and undifferentiated love for the rest of creation. And so he was able to powerfully affect that creation.\"\nIn The History Teacher Donald Cody wrote that \"the book's uniqueness lies in the effective interspersing of some six dozen pictures throughout the relatively short text [...which] itself is biographical only in a very general way; the author's major goal is to reveal the spiritual dimensions of Gandhi's life.... Teachers and college students, in particular, will find the two or three hours spent with this book a rare inspirational experience. Even high school students who appreciate works with a spiritual focus will be affected by its profound message.\"\nCody also wrote that \"while the author describes [the] political struggle in considerable detail, he is more interested in showing that Gandhi did not see achieving India's freedom as his primary goal. In fact, had he not believed that British rule was particularly injurious to the Indian lower classes, he might not have involved himself in the independence movement at all.\"\nIn the [Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society](https://bliptext.com/articles/bulletin-of-science-technology-society), Tonya Emeigh suggested that Gandhi the Man could be used for teaching humane attitudes towards farm animals.\nThe publisher quoted influential religion scholar [Huston Smith](https://bliptext.com/articles/huston-smith) as stating that \"This book belongs in every public library in the English-speaking world.\"\n\n# Curriculum\nGandhi the Man serves as the basis of a 7-week curriculum and course offered through a US-based church denomination.\n\n# Editions\nThe original edition was published by in 1973 by Glide Publications (San Francisco).\nSeveral later US editions were published [Nilgiri Press](https://bliptext.com/articles/nilgiri-press).\nOther editions have been published in [Chinese](https://bliptext.com/articles/simplified-chinese) ([PRC](https://bliptext.com/articles/people-s-republic-of-china)),Eknath Easwaran (1998).\n[圣雄·甘地: 非暴力之父 (The Father of Nonviolence: Mahatma Gandhi)](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) ISBN 7-80128-125-X, ISBN 978-7-80128-125-8, (306 pages) Czech,Eknath Easwaran (1999).\n[Gándhí člověk: příběh jeho transformace (Gandhi the Man: The Story of his Transformation)](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) (Bohumila Kučerová, trans.).\nCzech Republic: Volvox Globator.\nISBN 80-7207-270-6, ISBN 978-80-7207-270-5 (140 pages) Dutch,Eknath Easwaran (1983).\n[Gandhi](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) (Hilde Lichtendahl, trans.).\nNetherlands: Sirius en Siderius.\nISBN 906441047X, ISBN 978-90-6441-047-5 Eknath Easwaran (1997).\n[Gandhi Een biografie](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) Netherlands: Ankh-Hermes.\nISBN 90-202-8124-0 ISBN 9789020281248 (paper) German,Eknath Easwaran (1983).\n[Der Mensch Gandhi](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined).\nGermany:Grumann.\nISBN 3-924092-13-3, ISBN 978-3-924092-13-9 (184 pages).\nEknath Easwaran (1997).\n''[https://books.google.com/books?id=gvvZAAAACAAJ&q=Der+Mensch+Gandhi.+Sein+Leben+ist+eine+Botschaft Der Mensch Gandhi.\nSein Leben ist eine Botschaft (Gandhi the Man: His Life is a Message)]''.\nFreiburg, Germany:Herder.\nISBN 978-3-451-04564-6 [Indonesian](https://bliptext.com/articles/bahasa-indonesian),[Eknath Easwaran](https://bliptext.com/articles/eknath-easwaran) (2013).\n[Gandhi the Man - Seorang pria yang mengubah dirinya demi mengubah dunia](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined).\nIndonesia: Bentang Pustaka (Mizan Group).\nISBN 6027888903, ISBN 978-602-7888-90-6 (288 pages).\nJapanese,[Eknath Easwaran](https://bliptext.com/articles/eknath-easwaran) (2013).\n[人間ガンディー世界を変えた自己変革 / (Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World)](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) (ｽﾀｲﾅｰ紀美子= Kimiko Steiner, trans.).\n[Osaka](https://bliptext.com/articles/osaka), [Japan](https://bliptext.com/articles/japan): 大阪東方出版 / Eastern [Osaka](https://bliptext.com/articles/osaka) Publishing.\nISBN 978-4862492135, ISBN 4862492134,, (214 pages) Korean,[Eknath Easwaran](https://bliptext.com/articles/eknath-easwaran) (2005).\n[비폭력이 가장 위대한 사랑이다 (Nonviolence is the Greatest Love)](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) (박유진, trans.).\nKorea: 꿈꾸는돌.\nISBN 89-91159-07-9, ISBN 978-89-91159-07-5 [Kurdish](https://bliptext.com/articles/kurdish-languages),Eknath Easwaran (2010).\nRebāzī-i ʻashq : chīrokī wacharkhānī roḥī-y Māhātmā Gāndī (Hāwār Aḥmad Halanjayi [Halabjayi], trans. from Persian).\nHawler [Erbil], [Iraq](https://bliptext.com/articles/iraqi-kurdistan): Chāpkhāna-y Minārih.\n(175 pages) and [Persian](https://bliptext.com/articles/persian-language).[Eknath Easwaran](https://bliptext.com/articles/eknath-easwaran) (2001).\n[Rāh-i ʻishq: dāsitān taḥūl rūḥī mahātmā Gāndī (The Way of Love: The Story of Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual transformation)](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) (Shahram Tabrizi, trans.).\nIran: ققنوس، (Phoenix).\nISBN 964-311-411-2, ISBN 978-964-311-411-4, (190 pages).\nEnglish-language editions have been published in Canada, India, and the US.\nThe US editions are:\nCanadian edition:\nIndian edition:","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-26T12:32:08.182Z","updated_at":"2025-01-26T12:32:08.182Z","search_vector":"'gandhi':1 'man':3","search_content":" \n \n**Name:** Gandhi the Man \n**Image Size:** 200px \n**Author:** [Eknath Easwaran](https://bliptext.com/articles/eknath-easwaran) \n**Language:** English (original); [Chinese](https://bliptext.com/articles/simplified-chinese), Czech, Dutch, German, [Indonesian](https://bliptext.com/articles/bahasa-indonesian), Japanese, Korean, [Kurdish](https://bliptext.com/articles/kurdish-languages), [Persian](https://bliptext.com/articles/persian-language) \n**Genre:** Politicians - India - Biography \n**Publisher:** [Nilgiri Press](https://bliptext.com/articles/nilgiri-press); others \n**Pub Date:** 1973; 1978; 1991; 2011; others \n**Pages:** 200 (2011); 179 (1997); 186 (1978); 157 (1973). \n**Isbn:** 978-1-58638-055-7 \n \n\n# \n**Gandhi the Man** is a biography of [Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi](https://bliptext.com/articles/mohandas-karamchand-gandhi) written by [Eknath Easwaran](https://bliptext.com/articles/eknath-easwaran).\nThe book was originally published in the United States in 1973.\nSeveral subsequent expanded editions have been published.\nNon-English editions have also been published in several languages.\n\n# Topics covered\nAll US editions of Gandhi the Man contain four major parts entitled 1) The Transformation, 2) The Way of Love, 3) Mother and Child, and 4) Gandhi the Man.\nAll US editions also contain numerous photographs.\nMore recent editions contain a foreword by [Michael Nagler](https://bliptext.com/articles/michael-nagler) and an Appendix by Timothy Flinders entitled \"How Satyagraha Works.\"\nThe 4th edition (2011) contains several pages of maps and chronology (timelines), and additional background notes.\n\n# Reviews and influence\nReviews have appeared in the [New York Post](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-york-post), [Bill McKibben](https://bliptext.com/articles/bill-mckibben) (21 May 1989).\n[New York Post](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-york-post), pp. 4-5.\nReview of Gandhi the Man, A Man to Match His Mountains, Meditation, The Mantram Handbook, and Conquest of Mind.\nthe [San Francisco Chronicle](https://bliptext.com/articles/san-francisco-chronicle), [The History Teacher](https://bliptext.com/articles/the-history-teacher), and elsewhere.\nIn the New York Post, [Bill McKibben](https://bliptext.com/articles/bill-mckibben) wrote that Gandhi the Man \"seems at first glance like pure hagiography, most notable for the wonderful photographs it contains. But it isn't a picture book - in fact, in very few words, it comes closer to giving some sense of how Gandhi saw his life than any other account I have read. From the outside, his life looked like a political drama... But from the inside, Easwaran argues quite persuasively, it looked quite different. Gandhi mastered his own life - took charge of his mind and his body. As a result he knew no fear, only great and undifferentiated love for the rest of creation. And so he was able to powerfully affect that creation.\"\nIn The History Teacher Donald Cody wrote that \"the book's uniqueness lies in the effective interspersing of some six dozen pictures throughout the relatively short text [...which] itself is biographical only in a very general way; the author's major goal is to reveal the spiritual dimensions of Gandhi's life.... Teachers and college students, in particular, will find the two or three hours spent with this book a rare inspirational experience. Even high school students who appreciate works with a spiritual focus will be affected by its profound message.\"\nCody also wrote that \"while the author describes [the] political struggle in considerable detail, he is more interested in showing that Gandhi did not see achieving India's freedom as his primary goal. In fact, had he not believed that British rule was particularly injurious to the Indian lower classes, he might not have involved himself in the independence movement at all.\"\nIn the [Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society](https://bliptext.com/articles/bulletin-of-science-technology-society), Tonya Emeigh suggested that Gandhi the Man could be used for teaching humane attitudes towards farm animals. \nThe publisher quoted influential religion scholar [Huston Smith](https://bliptext.com/articles/huston-smith) as stating that \"This book belongs in every public library in the English-speaking world.\"\n\n# Curriculum\nGandhi the Man serves as the basis of a 7-week curriculum and course offered through a US-based church denomination.\n\n# Editions\nThe original edition was published by in 1973 by Glide Publications (San Francisco).\nSeveral later US editions were published [Nilgiri Press](https://bliptext.com/articles/nilgiri-press).\nOther editions have been published in [Chinese](https://bliptext.com/articles/simplified-chinese) ([PRC](https://bliptext.com/articles/people-s-republic-of-china)), Eknath Easwaran (1998).\n[圣雄·甘地: 非暴力之父 (The Father of Nonviolence: Mahatma Gandhi)](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) ISBN 7-80128-125-X, ISBN 978-7-80128-125-8, (306 pages) Czech, Eknath Easwaran (1999).\n[Gándhí člověk: příběh jeho transformace (Gandhi the Man: The Story of his Transformation)](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) (Bohumila Kučerová, trans.).\nCzech Republic: Volvox Globator.\nISBN 80-7207-270-6, ISBN 978-80-7207-270-5 (140 pages) Dutch, Eknath Easwaran (1983).\n[Gandhi](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) (Hilde Lichtendahl, trans.).\nNetherlands: Sirius en Siderius.\nISBN 906441047X, ISBN 978-90-6441-047-5 Eknath Easwaran (1997).\n[Gandhi Een biografie](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) Netherlands: Ankh-Hermes.\nISBN 90-202-8124-0 ISBN 9789020281248 (paper) German, Eknath Easwaran (1983).\n[Der Mensch Gandhi](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined).\nGermany:Grumann.\nISBN 3-924092-13-3, ISBN 978-3-924092-13-9 (184 pages).\n Eknath Easwaran (1997).\n''[https://books.google.com/books?id=gvvZAAAACAAJ&q=Der+Mensch+Gandhi.+Sein+Leben+ist+eine+Botschaft Der Mensch Gandhi.\nSein Leben ist eine Botschaft (Gandhi the Man: His Life is a Message)]''.\nFreiburg, Germany:Herder.\nISBN 978-3-451-04564-6 [Indonesian](https://bliptext.com/articles/bahasa-indonesian), [Eknath Easwaran](https://bliptext.com/articles/eknath-easwaran) (2013).\n[Gandhi the Man - Seorang pria yang mengubah dirinya demi mengubah dunia](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined).\nIndonesia: Bentang Pustaka (Mizan Group).\nISBN 6027888903, ISBN 978-602-7888-90-6 (288 pages).\nJapanese, [Eknath Easwaran](https://bliptext.com/articles/eknath-easwaran) (2013).\n[人間ガンディー世界を変えた自己変革 / (Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World)](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) (ｽﾀｲﾅｰ紀美子= Kimiko Steiner, trans.).\n[Osaka](https://bliptext.com/articles/osaka), [Japan](https://bliptext.com/articles/japan): 大阪東方出版 / Eastern [Osaka](https://bliptext.com/articles/osaka) Publishing.\nISBN 978-4862492135, ISBN 4862492134,, (214 pages) Korean, [Eknath Easwaran](https://bliptext.com/articles/eknath-easwaran) (2005).\n[비폭력이 가장 위대한 사랑이다 (Nonviolence is the Greatest Love)](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) (박유진, trans.).\nKorea: 꿈꾸는돌.\nISBN 89-91159-07-9, ISBN 978-89-91159-07-5 [Kurdish](https://bliptext.com/articles/kurdish-languages), Eknath Easwaran (2010).\nRebāzī-i ʻashq : chīrokī wacharkhānī roḥī-y Māhātmā Gāndī (Hāwār Aḥmad Halanjayi [Halabjayi], trans. from Persian).\nHawler [Erbil], [Iraq](https://bliptext.com/articles/iraqi-kurdistan): Chāpkhāna-y Minārih.\n(175 pages) and [Persian](https://bliptext.com/articles/persian-language). [Eknath Easwaran](https://bliptext.com/articles/eknath-easwaran) (2001).\n[Rāh-i ʻishq: dāsitān taḥūl rūḥī mahātmā Gāndī (The Way of Love: The Story of Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual transformation)](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) (Shahram Tabrizi, trans.).\nIran: ققنوس، (Phoenix).\nISBN 964-311-411-2, ISBN 978-964-311-411-4, (190 pages).\nEnglish-language editions have been published in Canada, India, and the US.\nThe US editions are:\nCanadian edition:\nIndian edition:","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}