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Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
File:Gandhi's Truth (first edition).jpg
Cover of the first edition
AuthorErik H. Erikson
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMahatma Gandhi
PublisherW. W. Norton
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages476 (1989 reprint edition)
ISBN0-393-00741-3 (1989 reprint edition)

Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence is a 1969 book about Mahatma Gandhi by the German-born American developmental psychologist Erik H. Erikson. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction[1] and the U.S. National Book Award in category Philosophy and Religion.[2]

The book was republished in 1993 by Norton.[3]

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  1. "Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction" (web). pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
  2. "National Book Awards – 1970" (web). National Book Foundation. 2007. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
  3. Erikson, Erik Homburger (1993). Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 474 pages. ISBN 0-393-31034-5.

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