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Mohandas K. Gandhi was a major nationalist leader in the movement to free India from British rule. As a young man, Gandhi trained as an attorney in England, and his first position was representing Indian interests in South Africa. While there, he criticized caste divisions within his own Indian community, and then he led a nonviolent movement against the forced registration of the Indian population. When he returned to India in 1915, he focused his efforts in formulating and practicing nonviolent methods to end British colonialism. Gandhi repeatedly warned people that he was a political activist and not a scholar. Except for perhaps his autobiography and Hind Swaraj , Gandhi wrote not for posterity but for what the exigencies of the time required. His famous “experiments with truth” forced him to constantly revise his thinking, so he advised readers to take his current statements, not his past remarks, as their guide. Given this proviso, this essay offers an interpretation of his comments on ethics that correspond with his Indian tradition and virtue ethics.

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