Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiment with Truth
- ISBN-10
- 1608331075
- ISBN-13
- 9781608331079
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 158
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Orbis Books
- Author
- James W. Douglass
Description
In 1948, at the dawn of his country's independence, Mohandas Gandhi, father of the Indian independence movement and a beloved prophet of nonviolence, was assassinated by Hindu nationalists. In riveting detail, author James W. Douglass shows as he previously did with the story of JFK how police and security forces were complicit in the assassination and how in killing one man, they hoped to destroy his vision of peace, nonviolence, and reconciliation. Gandhi had long anticipated and prepared for this fate. In reviewing the little-known story of his early "experiments in truth" in South Africa the laboratory for Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha, or truth force Douglass shows how early he confronted and overcame the fear of death. And, as with his account of JFK's death, he shows why this story matters: what we can learn from Gandhi's truth in the struggle for peace and reconciliation today.
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