Digital First Edition of Life of Mahatma Gandhi through Philately - Gandhi Stamp Catalogue This Digital First Edition of Gandhi Stamp Catalogue was created with intensive effort over many years and is meant to serve both as a world-wide stamp catalogue and as a memoir to learn more about the life of Mahatma Gandhi, the Visionary from Porbandar so we can apply his teachings in our daily lives. The brief summary of contents are as follows: -> Beautifully illustrated with images of all 1168 stamps on Mahatma Gandhi from all over the world -> Covers all 146 issuers belonging to 139 territories representing present day 133 countries -> It gives both country-wise and year-wise summary of Gandhi stamp listings -> Classification of genuine and illegal stamps -> Contains images of stamps, souvenir sheets, FDCs, postcards etc. -> Meant for use as a comprehensive collector’s guide for Gandhi stamps -> Links to websites of postal authorities / agents, where you can buy genuine stamps at face value -> All key events in the Life of Mahatma Gandhi summarized along with a brief memoir on Visionary from Porbandar How to use Catabooks Gandhi Stamp Catalogue? The Catalogue lists stamps by country of issue with a brief country profile along with a brief history of stamps and a note on postal authority. The next level of structure is by date (month or year if date is not available) of issue. The following information is made available for each stamp: 1. CGC Number - This Catabooks Gandhi stamp Catalogue (CGC) has a unique CGC number to easily identify legal stamps issued on Mahatma Gandhi using 2 letters country code as per ISO 3166-2, 3 digits stand-alone year-wise serial number for Gandhi stamps and the four digits for the year after ‘G,' a character to denote Mahatma Gandhi. 2. Image of the stamp / miniature sheet and first day cover, folder, etc. to the extent possible 3. Basic information about the stamp 4. Denomination in local currency 5. Quantity of stamps issued, if available 6. Date of Issue (wherever date is not available, the month or year is given) 7. Nature of Issue like definitive (regular issuance for postal use) or commemorative (special issuance mostly for collectors), or if meant only for air post, if available 8. Shape of Issue with dimensions, if available 9. Serrations: Perforations made to the sheet, which are printed to have a specific number of stamps, to ease their splitting also referred to as perforated (meaning stamp with cutting rows and columns of small holes). It is called imperforate where this is no separation, especially the earlier stamps. 10. WNS No.

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An epic and revelatory biography of one of the most abidingly influential and controversial men in modern history. Opening with Gandhi's triumphant return to India in 1915 after decades abroad, and ending with his tragic assassination in 1949, Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World is a remarkable, moving portrait that provides a crucial re-evaluation of India's iconic leader for a new generation. Drawing on a wealth of newly uncovered materials unavailable to previous biographers, acclaimed historian and author Ramachandra Guha brings the past to life with extraordinary grace and clarity. Deploying his gifts as a storyteller and scholar, Guha presents Gandhi as both a fascinating human being--a man of fierce hope, eccentric personal beliefs, and sometimes dark and alarming contradictions--as well as a dynamic political force and global icon. Sharp, insightful, balanced, and impeccably researched, this free-standing sequel to Guha's magisterial biography Gandhi Before India is an indispensable resource for a contemporary understanding of Gandhi's ever-evolving legacy.

"My purpose," Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha, Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement (satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry; the principle was truth and the cry freedom. The life of Gandhi has given fire and fiber to freedom fighters and to the untouchables of the world: hagiographers and patriots have capitalized on Mahatma myths. Yet Gandhi writes: "Often the title [Mahatma, Great Soul] has deeply pained me. . . . But I should certainly like to narrate my experiments in the spiritual field which are known only to myself, and from which I have derived such power as I possess for working in the political field." Clearly, Gandhi never renounced the world; he was neither pacifist nor cult guru. Who was Gandhi? In the midst of resurging interest in the man who freed India, inspired the American Civil Rights Movement, and is revered, respected, and misunderstood all over the world, the time is proper to listen to Gandhi himself -- in his own words, his own "confessions," his autobiography. Gandhi made scrupulous truth-telling a religion and his Autobiography inevitably reminds one of other saints who have suffered and burned for their lapses. His simply narrated account of boyhood in Gujarat, marriage at age 13, legal studies in England, and growing desire for purity and reform has the force of a man extreme in all things. He details his gradual conversion to vegetarianism and ahimsa (non-violence) and the state of celibacy (brahmacharya, self-restraint) that became one of his more arduous spiritual trials. In the political realm he outlines the beginning of Satyagraha in South Africa and India, with accounts of the first Indian fasts and protests, his initial errors and misgivings, his jailings, and continued cordial dealings with the British overlords. Gandhi was a fascinating, complex man, a brilliant leader and guide, a seeker of truth who died for his beliefs but had no use for martyrdom or sainthood. His story, the path to his vision of Satyagraha and human dignity, is a critical work of the twentieth century, and timeless in its courage and inspiration.