This book contains a frank and illuminating commentary on Gandhiji and his
ideals by the eminent French philosopher,Romain Rolland.As a great European and
contemporary of the Mahatma,his views have a special value. The appraisal and
assesment of Gandhiji's ideals of truth and Non-violence and of the strategy of
passive resistance against the mighty British Empire is of particular interest
as it comes from a brilliant mind of the materialist-oriented West. Long before
the world bestowed renown on Gandhiji for his political sagacity, Romain Rolland
probed and made known to humanity the spiritual greatness of the man. The two
understood each other fully and the great scholar from