Les livres que Mahatma Gandhi a lus
Les livres que Gandhi cite dans son Autobiographie, des manuels de droit de ses examens à Unto This Last de Ruskin, qui a changé sa vie, et les livres qu'il a recommandés à la fin de Hind Swaraj (1909).
54 livres
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- The Bible
The Bible - On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
On the Duty of Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau - Unto This Last
Unto This LastJohn Ruskin - The Light of Asia
The Light of AsiaSir Edwin Arnold - Heroes and Hero-Worship
Heroes and Hero-WorshipThomas Carlyle - A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)
A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)John Ruskin - History of the Indian mutiny, 1857-1858
History of the Indian mutiny, 1857-1858John William Kaye and G. B. Malleson - Life of Mahomet and His Successors
Life of Mahomet and His SuccessorsWashington Irving - What Is Art
What Is ArtLeo Tolstoy - The Kingdom of God Is Within You
The Kingdom of God Is Within YouLeo Tolstoy - Village Communities
Village CommunitiesHenry Sumner Maine - Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad GitaVyasa - Analogy
AnalogyJoseph Butler - The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The Yoga Sutras of PatanjaliPatanjali - The Slavery of Our Times
The Slavery of Our TimesLeo Tolstoy - Defence and Death of Socrates
Defence and Death of SocratesPlato - Common Law
Common LawHerbert Broom - The Koran
The KoranGeorge Sale - India, what can it teach us? Indian edition by K.A. Nilakan
India, what can it teach us? Indian edition by K.A. Nilakantha SastryMax Müller - Legal Maxims
Legal MaximsHerbert Broom - Equity
EquityEdmund Henry Turner Snell - Real Property
Real PropertyJoshua Williams - The economic history of India
The economic history of IndiaRomesh Chunder Dutt - Hindu Law
Hindu LawJohn Dawson Mayne
Les 54 livres, par auteur
- The Bible · avis partagé
But the New Testament produced a different impression, especially the Sermon on the Mount which went straight to my heart.
(Autobiography Part I, ch. 20 "Acquaintance With Religions", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), first-edition OCR reads "repression" for "impression", via mkgandhi.org) - AThe Light of Asia · Sir Edwin Arnold · adoré
I read it with even greater interest than I did the Bhagavad Gita.
(first edition, Navajivan 1927/1929, , Part I, ch. 20 "Acquaintance With Religions"; M. Desai translation, public domain; quoted in the first-edition wording (the later Navajivan text at https://www.mkgandhi.org/autobio/chap20.php differs slightly), via archive.org) - BBell's Standard Elocutionist · David Charles Bell
- The Key to Theosophy · Helena Blavatsky
This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism
(Autobiography Part I, ch. 20 "Acquaintance With Religions", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - Common Law · Herbert Broom
For Broom's Common Law, a big but interesting volume, took up a good deal of time.
(Autobiography Part I, ch. 24 "Called - But Then?", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - Legal Maxims · Herbert Broom
I had read with interest 'Legal Maxims', but did not know how to apply them in my profession.
(Autobiography Part I, ch. 25 "My Helplessness", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - Manusmriti · G. Buhler
Manusmriti at any rate did not then teach me ahimsa.
(Autobiography Part I, ch. 10 "Glimpses Of Religion", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - Analogy · Joseph Butler · avis partagé
Butler's Analogy struck me to be a very profound and difficult book, which should be read four or five times to be understood properly.
(Autobiography Part II, ch. 11 "Christian Contacts", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), first-edition OCR has a page break inside the sentence, via mkgandhi.org) - CHeroes and Hero-Worship · Thomas Carlyle
- Civilisation, its cause and cure · Edward Carpenter
- Charaka · Charaka
- DThe economic history of India · Romesh Chunder Dutt
- Rajayoga · M. N. Dvivedi
- EReal Property · Edward
- GPersonal Property · Louis Arthur Goodeve
- ILife of Mahomet and His Successors · Washington Irving · adoré
These books raised Muhammad in my estimation.
(Autobiography Part II, ch. 22 "Comparative study of Religions", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - JReturn of Nature · Adolf Just · avis partagé
Those who purchase Just's book on the strength of this chapter should not take everything in it to be gospel truth.
(Autobiography Part IV, ch. 7 "Experiments in earth and water treatment", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - Justinian · Justinian
The reading of Justinian, therefore, helped me a great deal in understanding the South African law.
(Autobiography Part I, ch. 24 "Called - But Then?", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - KRam Raksha · Budha Kaushika
- The Perfect Way in Diet · Anna Kingsford
Anna Kingsford's The Perfect Way in Diet was also an attractive book.
(Autobiography Part I, ch. 15 "Playing The English Gentleman", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - The Perfect Way: Or, The Finding of Christ · Edward Maitland and Anna Kingsford
The book was a repudiation of the current Christian belief.
(Autobiography Part II, ch. 15 "Religious Ferment", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - L[book on physiognomy] · Johann Caspar Lavater · pas aimé
I read Lavator's book which I found more difficult than Snell's Equity, and scarcely interesting.
(first edition, Navajivan 1927/1929, , Part I, ch. 25 "My Helplessness"; M. Desai translation, public domain; quoted in the first-edition wording (the later Navajivan text at https://www.mkgandhi.org/autobio/chap25.php differs slightly), via archive.org) - MVillage Communities · Henry Sumner Maine
- History of the Indian mutiny, 1857-1858 · John William Kaye and G. B. Malleson
- Hindu Law · John Dawson Mayne · adoré
read Mayne's Hindu Law with deep interest
(Autobiography Part II, ch. 3 "The First Case", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - Life of Keshav Chandra Sen · Pratap Chandra Mazumdar
read it with great interest
(Autobiography Part III, ch. 19 "A month with Gokhale-III", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - The duties of man · Giuseppe Mazzini
- India, what can it teach us? Indian edition by K.A. Nilakantha Sastry · Max Müller
- NPoverty and un-British rule in India · Dadabhai Naoroji
- Paradoxes of Civilization · Max Nordau
- PThe Yoga Sutras of Patanjali · Patanjali
- Many Infallible Proofs · Arthur Tappan Pierson
The book had no effect on me.
(Autobiography Part II, ch. 11 "Christian Contacts", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - Defence and Death of Socrates · Plato
- RA Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market) · John Ruskin
- Unto This Last · John Ruskin · adoré
I determined to change my life in accordance with the ideals of the book.
(Autobiography Part IV, ch. 18 "The magic spell of a book", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - SThe Koran · George Sale
- A plea for vegetarianism · Henry S. Salt · adoré
I read Salt's book from cover to cover and was very much impressed by it.
(Autobiography Part I, ch. 14 "My Choice", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - The white slaves of England · Robert Harborough Sherard
- Equity · Edmund Henry Turner Snell · avis partagé
Snell's Equity was full of interest, but a bit hard to understand.
(Autobiography Part I, ch. 24 "Called - But Then?", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - TLife without principle · Henry David Thoreau
- On the Duty of Civil Disobedience · Henry David Thoreau
- Letter to a Hindu · Leo Tolstoy
- The First Step · Leo Tolstoy
- The Gospels in brief · Leo Tolstoy · adoré
The Gospels in Brief, What to Do? and other books made a deep impression on me.
(Autobiography Part II, ch. 22 "Comparative study of Religions", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - The Kingdom of God Is Within You · Leo Tolstoy · adoré
Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You overwhelmed me.
(Autobiography Part II, ch. 15 "Religious Ferment", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - The Slavery of Our Times · Leo Tolstoy
- What Is Art · Leo Tolstoy
- What to do? · Leo Tolstoy · adoré
The Gospels in Brief, What to Do? and other books made a deep impression on me.
(Autobiography Part II, ch. 22 "Comparative study of Religions", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - Ramayana of Tulasidas · Tulasidas · adoré
Today I regard the Ramayana of Tulasidas as the greatest book in all devotional literature.
(Autobiography Part I, ch. 10 "Glimpses Of Religion", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - VRāja-yoga · Swami Vivekananda
- Bhagavad Gita · Vyasa · adoré
I regard it today as the book par excellence for the knowledge of Truth.
(Autobiography Part I, ch. 20 "Acquaintance With Religions", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org) - Bhagavat · Vyasa
Today I see that Bhagavat is a book which can evoke religious fervour. I have read it in Gujarati with intense interest.
(first edition, Navajivan 1927/1929, , Part I, ch. 10 "Glimpses Of Religion"; M. Desai translation, public domain; quoted in the first-edition wording (the later Navajivan text at https://www.mkgandhi.org/autobio/chap10.php differs slightly), via archive.org) - WThe ethics of diet · Howard Williams
- Real Property · Joshua Williams · adoré
Williams' book read like a novel.
(Autobiography Part I, ch. 24 "Called - But Then?", M. Desai translation (Navajivan), public domain; same wording in the 1927/1929 first edition (archive.org gandhisautobiogr01gand / 02gand), via mkgandhi.org)
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