Gandhi Archive Online
The Gandhi Heritage Portal presents accurate, facsimile reproductions of Gandhi’s major writings, including the complete 100 volume set of Collected Works.
https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org
Gandhi in South Africa
Satyagraha in South Africa
Gandhi’s retrospective (1928) account of the first Satyagraha campaign, which took place in South Africa from 1906-14.
PDF: [1.5 mb): https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/satyagraha_in_south_africa.pdf
Timeline
Satyagraha is a term coined by Gandhi in 1906 to define the nature of nonviolent power.
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/passive-resistance-campaign-timeline
BBC Overview of S. Africa Satyagraha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEE9XQaHg8Y
Swarthmore Summary
http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/indians-south-africa-wage-satyagraha-their-rights-1906-1914
Further Reading: Ramachandra Guha. Gandhi Before India. New York: Vintage, 2015. (Check your library for the ebook.)
“Mr. Doke and his good wife were anxious that I should be perfectly at rest and peaceful, and were therefore pained to witness my mental activity after the assault. They were afraid that it might react in a manner prejudicial to my health. They, therefore, by making signs and similar devices, removed all persons from near my bed, and asked me not to write or do anything. I made a request in writing, that before and in order that I might lie down quietly, their daughter Olive, who was then only a little girl, should sing for me my favourite English hymn, ‘Lead, Kindly Light’. Mr. Doke liked this very much and acceded to my request with a sweet smile. He called Olive by signs and asked her to stand at the door and sing the hymn in a low tone. The whole scene passes before my eyes as I dictate this, and the melodious voice of little Olive reverberates in my ears.” – Gandhi, Satyagraha in S. Africa, Ch. XXII
“Lead, Kindly Light” performed by Audrey Assad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piUDbCtgymw
Gandhi and the Campaign for Independence
Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule
Written aboard a ship in 1909 as Gandhi sailed from England to South Africa, here Gandhi makes the case that Indian independence should be won with a satyagraha campaign.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40461/40461-h/40461-h.htm
See especially: Ch. VI “Civilization”; Ch. XVI “Brute Force”; Ch. XVII “Passive Resistance”
Salt March video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWl6Jn2CfUE
An Autobiography: Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth
Audiobook and English text of the 1940 classic, online:
https://www.mkgandhi.org/linktoautobio.htm
Gandhi Wields the Weapon of Moral Power
A study of three key satyagraha campaigns in India, written in 1953 by Gene Sharp, published by Navajivan in 1960. Available here in pdf:
https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/gandhi-wields-the-weapon-of-moral-power.pdf
“Violence too often brings reaction and demoralization in its train, and in our country especially it may lead to disruption. It is perfectly true that organized violence rules the world today and it may be that we could profit from its use. But we have not the material or the training for organized violence, and individual or sporadic violence is a confession of despair. The great majority of us, I take it, judge the issue not on moral but on practical grounds and if we reject the way of violence, it is because it promises no substantial results. Any great movement for liberation must necessarily be a mass movement, and a mass movement must essentially be peaceful, except in times of organized revolt.” – Jawaharlal Nehru, President of the Indian National Congress, Dec. 1929, quoted in Sharp p. 65.
“If all make of Ahimsa (non-violence) a policy, and I remain the only votary of it as a creed, we can make very little progress.” – Gandhi, Jan. 1930, quoted in Sharp, p. 68.
Further Reading: Ramachandra Guha. Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World, 1914 – 1948. New York: Knopf, 2018. (Check your library for the ebook.)
Gandhi’s Gita
Mahadev Desai. The Gospel of Selfless Action or The Gita According to Gandhi. Ahmedabad: Navajivan, 1946. PDF.
https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/gita-according-to-gandhi.pdf
A translation of The Bhagavad Gita with Gandhi’s commentary.
Gandhi, all too Human
Cautionary Remarks by Arundhati Roy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-yMiBGBOe0
Ambedkar movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfgTP5J2FhY
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