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COSIMO CLASSICS Third Class in Indian Railways by Mahatma Gandhi
Before he returned to his native India from South Africa where he had been working as a lawyer Mahatma Gandhinow known as MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI (18691948) the spiritual leader of the movement for Indian independence and a passionate proponent of civil disobedience as a force for social changewas ejected from the first class cabin of a train even though he held a valid first class ticket and was forced to travel in the squalid third class cars. In 1917 after he returned home Gandhi produced this extraordinary look at the plight of the poor in India as prismed through the experience of a rail journey from Mumbai to Madras. From the filthy overcrowded conditions in third class to his philosophical musings on the cures for what ailed the downtrodden of that nation this brief vital work offers a remarkable insight into the thinking of one of the 20th centurys greatest heroes and essential background for the acts that made him so powerful and so beloved.show more