Gandhi 1914 1948

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'A vivid, absorbing read' Sunday Times 'Magisterial' Literary Review The magnificent new biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and galvanized many millions of men and women around the world. He lived almost entirely in the shadow of the British Raj, which for much of his life seemed a permanent fact, but which he did more than anyone else to destroy, using revolutionary tactics. In a world defined by violence on a scale never imagined before and by ferocious Fascist and Communist dictatorship, he was armed with nothing more than his arguments and example. This magnificent book tells the story of Gandhi's life, from his departure from South Africa to his assassination in 1948. It is a book with a Tolstoyan sweep, both allowing us to see Gandhi as he was understood by his contemporaries and the vast, varied Indian societies and landscapes which he travelled through and changed beyond measure. Drawing on many new sources and animated by its author's wonderful sense of drama and politics, Gandhi is a major reappraisal of the crucial years in this titanic figure's story.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Penguin UK
Release : 2018-09-27
File : 1144 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780141946344


Gandhi The Years That Changed The World 1914 1948

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Opening in July 1914, as Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa to return to India, Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1918 traces the Mahatma’s life over the three decades preceding his assassination. Drawing on new archival materials, acclaimed historian Ramachandra Guha follows Gandhi’s struggle to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India’s Hindus and Muslims, to end the pernicious practice of untouchability, and to nurture India’s economic and moral self-reliance. He shows how in each of these campaigns, Gandhi adapted methods of nonviolence that successfully challenged British authority and would influence revolutionary movements throughout the world. A revelatory look at the complexity of Gandhi’s thinking and motives, the book is a luminous portrait of not only the man himself, but also those closest to him—family, friends, and political and social leaders.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Vintage
Release : 2018-10-02
File : 807 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780385532327


Revolution And Non Violence In Tolstoy Gandhi And Mandela

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The dangers of political violence and the possibilities of non-violence were the central themes of three lives which changed the twentieth century--Leo Tolstoy, writer and aristocrat who turned against his class, Mohandas Gandhi who corresponded with Tolstoy and considered him the most important person of the time, and Nelson Mandela, prisoner and statesman, who read War and Peace on Robben Island and who, despite having led a campaign of sabotage, saw himself as a successor to Gandhi. Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Mandela tried to create transformed societies to replace the dying forms of colony and empire. They found the inequalities of Russia, India, and South Africa intolerable yet they questioned the wisdom of seizing the power of the state, creating new kinds of political organisation and imagination to replace the old promises of revolution. Their views, along with their ways of leading others, are closely connected, from their insistence on working with their own hands and reforming their individual selves to their acceptance of death. On three continents, in a century of mass mobilization and conflict, they promoted strains of nationalism devoid of antagonism, prepared to take part in a general peace. Looking at Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Mandela in sequence, taking into account their letters and conversations as well as the institutions they created or subverted, placing at the centre their treatment of the primal fantasy of political violence, this volume reveals a vital radical tradition which stands outside the conventional categories of twentieth-century history and politics.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Imraan Coovadia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2020-07-21
File : 285 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780192609090


Mahatma Gandhi And His Political Influence In South Africa 1893 1914

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Genre : East Indians
Author : Susan Joan Kovalsky
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Release : 1971
File : 46 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015079876986


A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography On Mahatma Gandhi

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Few figures in the twentieth century have been as inspirational as Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi. Interest in this extraordinary man has produced a massive amount of printed material, making Ananda M. Pandiri's comprehensive bibliography an invaluable reference tool for scholars and students. Pandiri has meticulously searched printed and electronic indexes, publisher's catalogs, and university libraries throughout India, Britain, and the U.S. to compile a complete bibliography of sources in the English language. This volume is organized and cross-referenced for easy use and access to a voluminous amount of information. Features include: -More than 4700 entries comprising books, pamphlets, seminars, government records, and other significant printed material -Complete bibliographic data of sources -Annotations detailing the content and scholarship of sources -Two exhaustive indexes-Title and Subject

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Genre : History
Author : Ananda M. Pandiri
Publisher : Praeger
Release : 2007-02-28
File : 688 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015069355959


Frontline

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Genre : India
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Release : 1994-07
File : 1106 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B5134424


Gandhi Marg

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Genre : Peace
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Release : 1994
File : 548 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015052832022


Africa Quarterly

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Genre : Africa
Author :
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Release : 1999
File : 826 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015057999032


Indian Books In Print

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Genre : English imprints
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Release : 2003
File : 1118 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015063188851


Historical Abstracts

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Genre : History, Modern
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Release : 1997
File : 938 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015073568696