Amazon.com description: Product Description: This new volume is an abridgement of Oxford's authoritative three-volume Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi. The book, drawing from every period in Gandhi's life, collects a wide range of unabridged letters, articles, and extracts from books that do full justice to the subtlety, richness, and evolution of Gandhi's thought. Iyer's introduction elucidates Gandhi's crucial concepts and their varied applications, and is supplemented by a helpful glossary of terms and a chronology of events. An invaluable reference, this book will help create a fuller, more accurate appreciation of Gandhi's significant and compelling contribution to this century and the future.