(The following is a post by Jonathan Loar, South Asia Reference Librarian, Asian Division.)
The Library of Congress has digitized and made available online one of the more unique items in the Asian Division’s South Asian rare book collection: a handwritten draft of the essay, “A Common Platform,” by Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), one of India’s foremost messengers of peace and nonviolence. The six-page essay, which was written around 1933, concludes with the signature of “M. K. Gandhi” (i.e., Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi). This draft was donated to the Library of Congress in 1965.