This book is a collection of six essays written by Mahatma Gandhi after his return to India from South Africa. Before he returned to his native India from South Africa, where he had been working as a lawyer, Mahatma Gandhi now known as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 - 1948), the spiritual leader of the movement for Indian independence and a passionate proponent of civil disobedience as a force for social change was ejected from the first class cabin of a train, even though he held a valid first class ticket, and was forced to travel in the squalid third class cars.
