num_pages: 476
description: In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant non-violence and India became the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience.
language: English
title: Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
titlecomplete: Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
characters: Mahatma Gandhi
genres: Biography, Politics, Philosophy, Social Justice, Psychology, Nonfiction, India, World History, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 243
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 28800000
name: National Book Award
category: Philosophy & Religion
publisher: W.W. Norton & Company