num_pages: 476
description: Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence, written by Erik H. Erikson &amp; published by W.W. Norton &amp; Company in 1969, it won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction &amp; the 1970 National Book Award for Philosophy &amp; Religion. The book was republished in 1993 by Norton. In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually &amp; politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant nonviolence &amp; India became the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience.
language: English
title: Gandhi's Truth
titlecomplete: Gandhi's Truth
characters: Mahatma Gandhi
genres: Politics, India, Nonfiction, World History, Philosophy, History, Social Justice, Biography Memoir, Psychology, Biography
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 (NY)