10 Unusual Books Read by Mahatma Gandhi


I am always curious to know what the other person is reading. And I make it a point to read that book if I have not already read it. What fascinates me the most is what the great minds have read and I spend a lot of time in researching that. I have a list of all the books read by Ernest Hemingway, Steve Jobs and Acharya ‘Osho’ Rajneesh. Recently I came across the entire list of books read by Mahatma Gandhi. He seemed to have read almost everything written by Count Leo Tolstoy and Sir Edwin Arnold. But he had read only one play of Shakespeare which was Richard the Third. Mostly his reading was focused on religion, politics and history. But while going through the names of the books read by him, I found many unusual titles; some I had never heard before and some struck me as strange that the Mahatma would have read them. Hereunder are the 10 most unusual books that the greatest Indian to have ever lived has read:
1.    Equity by Snell
2.    Indian Currency & Exchange Banking by TK Shah
3.    Federal Finance by the same author
4.    Gulistaan or Rose Garden by Saadi
5.    Ruin of Egypt by Rothstein
6.    The Life of Pitt by Archibald Primrose
7.    Natural History of Birds
8.    Super Sensual Life by Jacob Boehme
9.    Astronomy without a Telescope by Mander
10.  Physiognomy by Lavator
There are many more books with odd titles that the Mahatma has read, but I found the ones listed above to be more intriguing than the others, hence I make a mention of them.  

-          NZ

22.11.2019
BN: 196




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