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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, To the People of Ashram (Sindhi Edition), edited and published by Anand T. Hingorani, Karachi, 18 March 1938

Small printed booklet in Sindhi script with pictorial wrappers incorporating a photographic portrait of Gandhi writing, approximately 198 pages, original printed wrappers, measuring approximately 11.5 × 8.5 cm, the frontispiece photograph inscribed and signed by Gandhi in Sindhi, with date, together with a contemporary ownership inscription of Anand T. Hingorani dated 18 March 1938 on the front free endpaper.

Inscribed and dated by Gandhi in blue ink “7/4/1941” with the blessing “Bapu ke Ashirvad” in Hindi.

HOW TO LIVE AS A GANDHIAN: The Moral World of the Ashram

Originally written in Gujarati, this edition is translated into Sindhi. A rare, autographed Sindhi edition of To the People of Ashram, one of the clearest and most direct expressions of Mahatma Gandhi’s ethical and spiritual framework for communal living at the Sabarmati and Sevagram Ashrams. Originally composed in Gujarati and later translated into regional languages for wider circulation, the work articulates the moral disciplines and vows Gandhi considered essential to the practice of truth, self-restraint, and non-violent living.

Structured around the foundational principles governing ashram life, the text addresses ideals including Satya (truth), Ahimsa (non-violence), Brahmacharya (self-discipline), Swadeshi (self-reliance), non-possession, communal labour, simplicity, and service to society. For Gandhi, the ashram was not merely a residential settlement but an experimental moral community intended to embody the ethical foundations of India’s struggle for freedom. Political liberation, he believed, could not be separated from personal discipline and social reform.

The present Sindhi edition carries particular significance in relation to Anand T Hingorani and the broader Sindhi Gandhian circle. Anand Hingorani himself came from Sindh and abandoned a privileged upbringing to join Gandhi at Sabarmati Ashram in 1930. The appearance of this translated edition therefore reflects the wider dissemination of Gandhian thought beyond Gujarat and into regional linguistic communities deeply engaged with the nationalist movement.

Signed and dated by Gandhi in April 1941, during a period of intensifying political uncertainty preceding the Quit India Movement, the volume becomes both a practical handbook of Gandhian ethics and a deeply personal object connected to one of Gandhi’s closest disciples. Unlike formal political writings, works such as this illuminate Gandhi’s insistence that national regeneration must begin with disciplined individual conduct and collective ethical practice.

Autographed vernacular Gandhian publications of this nature survive far less frequently than later commemorative editions and remain highly desirable for collectors of memorabilia related to India’s freedom movement, Gandhian philosophy, and nationalist print culture.

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