Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 210. Chapters: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Sachin Tendulkar, Anna Hazare, Rambhadracharya, Swami Vivekananda, Priyanka Chopra, Aishwarya Rai, Rajinikanth, Rajesh Khanna, C. Rajagopalachari, Subhas Chandra Bose, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Rani Mukerji, Kajol, Satyajit Ray, Meghnad Saha, Alka Yagnik, Dimple Kapadia, Mani Madhava Chakyar, Ramdev, Shriya Saran, Mani Ratnam, The Great Khali, Rekha, C. N. Annadurai, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Amartya Sen, Tibbetibaba, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Narain Karthikeyan, Madhuri Dixit, Subramanian Swamy. Excerpt: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi .), (pronounced: 2 October 1869 - 30 January 1948), commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in 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. The son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised in a Hindu Bania community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa, using the new techniques of non-violent civil disobedience that he developed. Returning to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants to protest excessive land-taxes. A lifelong opponent of "communalism" (i.e. basing politics on religion) he reached out widely to all religious groups. He became a leader of Muslims protesting 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. Gandhi led Indians in...
