Amazon.com description: Product Description: Freedom's Battle Being aComprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation By Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ,2nd October 1869 – 30 January 1948, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi or Bapu, Father of Nation,] was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in the Raj, British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights, and freedom across the world. Gandhi was born in a Bania family in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. He fought for the civil rights of Indians in South Africa, using non-violent civil disobedience. Returning to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants to protest excessive land-taxes. A lifelong opponent of "communalism", basing politics on religion, he reached out widely to all religious groups.He became a leader of Muslims protesting against the declining status of the Caliphate. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from British domination.