An autobiography framed as a series of personal experiments in truth and self-discipline, rather than a political memoir.
I went in expecting a political memoir and found something stranger and more interesting: a book far more concerned with food, fear, honesty, and self-control than with politics. That's the first thing worth flagging for anyone reading it through this archive — it is, by its own framing, an account of private experiments, not a history of a movement.
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The principle of non-harm or non-violence — developed with particular rigor in some traditions and adapted into modern political thought.
A single-volume narrative history of the subcontinent, from early antiquity to the modern period.