ABSTRACT
Mohandas Gandhi (1869–1948) was the most effective, original and important of modern peacemakers. Gandhi’s contributions were practical and intellectual; local and general; spiritual and political. He was an active rebel as well as a lover of peace; a writer and theorist as well as a political leader; a student of Hindu traditions and a cosmopolitan; a thinker of great fecundity and abiding influence and yet a remarkably self-critical and undogmatic seeker after truth.
