Here are just a few recommended resources for Gandhi, the Gandhi Movement, nonviolence, and simple living. For recommended books, see A Peace Bookshelf.
A page by the Institute of Advanced Studies in Nagpur, India, and the Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal.
www.mkgandhi.org
An amazing collection of online materials on Gandhi, including extensive photo, audio, and video libraries.
www.gandhiserve.org
A collection of resources from the Mani Bhavan Gandhi Museum and Library.
www.gandhi-manibhavan.org
Resources on Vinoba, from the Mumbai Sarvodaya Mandal.
www.vinobabhave.org
Home page of award-winning children’s author Aaron Shepard. Includes a number of peace tales and scripts, some of them original, some retold from folktales, classic literature, or sacred stories. (Hint: Type “nonviolence” in the site’s search box.)
www.aaronshep.com
The most important organization promoting and practicing principled nonviolence. Has influenced many popular movements around the world. Affiliates in many countries.
Spoorstraat 38
1815 BK Alkmaar
NETHERLANDS
www.ifor.org
Provides nonviolent escorts and training for endangered activists. Chapters in many countries.
Unit 5, 89-93 Fonthill Rd
London N4 3HT
ENGLAND
www.peacebrigades.org
Conducts nonviolent interventions in conflict zones.
801 Front St.
St. Paul, MN 55103
USA
www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org
Letters to India can be in English, but the envelopes should be addressed in capital letters.
Promotes Gandhian thought and action, aids serious foreign inquirers, maintains a hostel.
221 Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg
New Delhi 110 002
A good contact for Gandhian activity in the Bombay area. The Web site includes much info on Gandhi, as well as a link to the mandal’s Gandhi Book Centre.
299, Tardeo Road
Nana Chowk
Bombay 400 007
INDIA
www.mkgandhi.org
Provides hospitality and guidance to foreigners interested in the Gandhi Movement. Loosely associated with the Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and directed by Daniel Mazgaonkar.
Sainath Estate, Off Nilam Nagar, After Jain Temple
D. P. Road, Mulund East
Bombay 400 081
(Contact Mark for email address.)
Networks with nonviolent activists internationally. Maintains a center with hostel and library. Directed by A. B. Bhardwaj.
B-29, Mangal Pandey Marg
Bhajanpura
New Delhi 110053
gandhiinaction.googlepages.com
The main national organization of active Gandhians.
Sevagram
Wardha, Maharashtra 442102
Vinoba’s ashram.
Parandham
Paunar
Wardha, Maharashtra 442 001
An institute dedicated to developing rural lifestyle alternatives along Gandhian lines. On the border between Bangalore and Tamilnadu.
c/o T. S. Ananthu
A-4 Whitefield Ville
Whitefield, Bangalore 560 066
www.navadarshanam.org
The U.S. affiliate of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation. Has been instrumental in many U.S. nonviolent movements, working closely with such figures as Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Box 271
Nyack, New York 10960
www.forusa.org
A Fellowship of Reconciliation affiliate.
P.O. Box 2324
Santa Cruz, California 95063
www.rcnv.org
The U.S. chapter of Peace Brigades International.
1904 Franklin Street, #505
Oakland, California 94612
www.pbiusa.org
Conducts training programs in nonviolence and conflict resolution. Directed by Arun Gandhi, a grandson of Gandhi’s.
c/o University of Rochester
Interfaith Chapel
Rochester, New York 14627
www.gandhiinstitute.org
An academic organization for the pursuit and promotion of peace and justice studies.
c/o University of San Francisco
University Center, 5th Fl
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
Promotes Gandhian thought in Britain.
Kingsley Hall Community Centre
Powis Rd
London E3 3HJ
UK
www.gandhifoundation.org
An education and action group in Germany.
Postfach 210109
10501 Berlin
GERMANY
www.nonviolent-resistance.info
The community founded by Lanza del Vasto and based on Gandhian principles of nonviolence and simplicity.
La Communauté de l’Arche
La Borie Noble
34.650 Roqueredonde
FRANCE
Promotes the ideas of E. F. Schumacher and numerous other progressive thinkers in the fields of economics, politics, spirituality, and ecology.
The CREATE Environment Centre
Smeaton Road
Bristol BS1 6XN
ENGLAND
www.schumacherinstitute.org.uk
Much of the basic source material on Gandhi and his followers can be hard to obtain. The following booksellers specialize in books from Navajivan Press and other Gandhian publishers in India. They may also be sources for out-of-print books.
Sells books and just about anything else Gandhian, including customized research. Offerings include the CD of Gandhi’s collected writings.
www.gandhiserve.org
A program of the Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal. Reportedly the largest supplier of Gandhi books and videos in India. An online store is in development. Offerings include the CD of Gandhi’s collected writings.
299, Tardeo Road
Nana Chowk
Bombay 400 007
INDIA
www.mkgandhi.org
Books on Gandhi, Vinoba, Sarvodaya, and the Community of the Ark. Good for out-of-print and hard-to-find books from the U.S. as well as India. The address shown is complete.
RFD, Canton, Maine 04221
USA
A venerable bookstore of the peace movement.
5 Caledonian Road
King’s Cross
London N1 9DX
ENGLAND
www.housmans.com
The following are public collections of Gandhian and other peace materials.
A comprehensive collection.
Rajghat
New Delhi 110 002
INDIA
gandhimuseum.org/site/sections/library
Another large collection.
19, Laburnum Road
Gamdevi, Mumbai 400 007
INDIA
www.gandhi-manibhavan.org
Materials on nonviolence, social change, Gandhi, and so on. The largest peace movement collection in England.
J.B. Priestley Library
University of Bradford
Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP
ENGLAND
www.bradford.ac.uk/library/find-materials/collections/commonweal-collection
A general peace movement collection. The largest in the U.S.
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
USA
www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace
Thanks to the generosity of a donor, this organization has probably the best Gandhian library on the U.S. West Coast.
P.O. Box 2324
Santa Cruz, California 95063
USA
www.rcnv.org
From the U.S. branch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Box 271
Nyack, NY 10960
USA
www.forusa.org/forusa-publications
A Canadian journal, edited by Metta Spencer.
736 Bathurst
Toronto, ON M5S 2R4
CANADA
www.peacemagazine.org
The official publication of Sarva Seva Sangh, the main Gandhian organization in India.
Bakharabad
Cuttack, Orissa 753002
INDIA
A scholarly journal from the Gandhi Peace Foundation.
221 Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg
New Delhi 110 002
INDIA
A journal of alternatives, influenced by E. F. Schumacher and Gandhi. Though it seems now to have turned mostly to a focus on ecology, the older influences still come through.
www.resurgence.org/magazine
Mostly about intentional, utopian communities, but can also have articles on cooperatives and other small‑scale alternatives.
138 Twin Oaks Rd
Louisa, VA 23093
USA
communities.ic.org