Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 192. Chapters: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, P. V. Narasimha Rao, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Abul Kalam Azad, Puli Thevar, Dadala Raphael Ramanayya, Madan Mohan Malaviya, Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Dharampal, Sarojini Naidu, Vinoba Bhave, R. Venkataraman, Birsa Munda, Achhar Singh Chhina, Mohammad Iqbal Shedai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Abdul Majeed Khwaja, Bhikaiji Cama, Thakur Deshraj, Ubaidullah Sindhi, Swami Shraddhanand, Rani Lakshmibai, Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Biju Patnaik, Feroze Gandhi, Jnananjan Niyogi, Hakim Ajmal Khan, Sohan Singh Bhakna, Krishnammal Jagannathan, Govind Ballabh Pant, Surya Sen, Guran Ditt Kumar, Brahmabandhab Upadhyay, Aruna Asaf Ali, Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi, N. M. Perera, Abdul Matlib Mazumdar, Saifuddin Kitchlew, Pingali Venkayya, Nagarjun, Mohammad Ali Jouhar, J. B. Kripalani, Swami Gopal Das, Mirabehn, Begum Hazrat Mahal, Willie MacRae, Zail Singh, Philip Gunawardena, Mahendra Pratap, Potti Sreeramulu, Professor Abdul Bari, Chaudhary Devi Lal, Surendranath Banerjee, V. M. Tarkunde, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Shibram Chakraborty, Rani Gaidinliu, Joseph Baptista, Hasrat Mohani, Shyam Sunder Surolia, Makhdoom Mohiuddin, Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan, Mahmud al-Hasan, Chittaranjan Das, Periyasaamy Thooran, Colvin R. de Silva, Maurice Frydman, Manikuntala Sen, Achyut Patwardhan, G. M. Syed, Jairamdas Daulatram, Satyendra Chandra Mitra, Phanishwar Nath 'Renu', Dada Dharmadhikari, Satyananda Stokes, Dada Amir Haider Khan, Minocher Rustom Masani, Kasturba Gandhi, Syed Mahmud, Nalini Ranjan Sarkar, Puran Chand Joshi, Sucheta Kriplani, Naranjan Singh Bhalla, Ponaka Kanakamma, Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, Pratap Singh Kairon, B. N. Sarma, Jagannath Sarkar, Sudhamoy Pramanick, Leela Roy, Abdul Qaiyum Ansari, Baba Kanshi Ram, S. R. Rana, Anandamohan Bose, Bishambhar Nath Pande, Gulabchand Hirachand, Swami Ramanand Tirtha, Subhadra Joshi, Garimella Satyanarayana, Indradeep Sinha, G A Vadivelu, Puripanda Appala Swamy, Ratanchand Hirachand, Gulab Singh Saini, Kamala Das Gupta, Mahavarat Vidyalankar. Excerpt: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi .), (pronounced: 2 October 1869 - 30 January 1948), commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world. The son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised in a Hindu Bania community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa, using the new techniques of non-violent civil disobedience that he developed. Returning to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants to protest excessive land-taxes. A lifelong opponent of "communalism" (i.e. basing politics on religion) he reached out widely to all religious groups. He became a leader of Muslims protesting the declining status of the Caliphate. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj-the independence of India from British domination. Gandhi led Indians in protesting the national salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in demanding the British to immediately Quit India in 1942, during World War II. He was imprisoned for that and for numerous other political offenses over the years. Gandhi sought to practice non-violence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same. He saw the villages as the core of the true India and promoted...