An Autobiography (World Philosophers and Their Works)
Context
In India, Mohandas K. Gandhi’s autobiography is seen as a Western preoccupation because autobiography writing is done by those in the West, not in the East. However, the work is a candid and humble account that illuminates the moral and spiritual side of an extraordinary leader. Gandhi’s book is solidly rooted in a historical context that spans forty years of his life in the India of the 1870’s to the 1920’s, without, however, being bound by such specificity. This is because it is not a simple chronicle but a quest for ways of attaining Absolute Truth....
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