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Gandhi / David Arnold.
Van Pelt Library DS481.G3 A695 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arnold, David, 1946-
- Series:
- Profiles in power (London, England)
- Profiles in power
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
- Gandhi.
- Nationalists--India--Biography.
- Nationalists.
- India.
- India--Politics and government--1857-1919.
- Politics and government.
- India--Politics and government--1919-1947.
- Statesmen--India--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Gandhi, M. K. (Mohandas Karamchand), 1869-1948.
- Local Subjects:
- Gandhi, M. K. (Mohandas Karamchand), 1869-1948.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 2001.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Idea of Gandhi 1
- Chapter 2 A Diwan's Son 15
- The India of the Princes 15
- Caste and the Banias 21
- Gandhi and his Family 26
- Religious Life in Kathiawar 30
- Gandhi in London 34
- Chapter 3 South Africa and Self-Rule 44
- Indians in South Africa 44
- A Lawyer in Natal 49
- 'Truth-Force' 53
- The Mantle of Mahatma 60
- 'Civilisation' and 'Slavery' 64
- Chapter 4 Peasant Power 73
- Village India 74
- The Raj and the Congress 78
- Gandhi in Champaran 83
- The Kheda Satyagraha 88
- The Ahmedabad Strike of 1918 91
- A Peasant Congress? 95
- Chapter 5 Power to the Nation 104
- Gandhi and the First World War 105
- The Rowlatt Satyagraha 109
- Congress Reorganisation 115
- Non-Cooperation and Civil Disobedience 118
- Khadi and the Constructive Programme 126
- Trial and Imprisonment 131
- Chapter 6 'Half-Naked Fakir' 136
- The Swarajists and the Bardoli Satyagraha 136
- 'Simon Go Back' 141
- The Salt Satyagraha 144
- Civil Disobedience 148
- The Gandhi-Irwin Pact 151
- London and the Round Table Conference 156
- Chapter 7 The Lone Satyagrahi: Gandhi, Religion and Society 163
- Gandhi's Religion 164
- Caste and Untouchability 169
- The 'Epic Fast' and Harijan Campaign 175
- Gandhi Adrift 181
- Women and Gendered Politics 185
- Chapter 8 Gandhi in Old Age: Triumph or Nemesis? 195
- Gandhi, Nehru and Bose 196
- The Office Question 201
- 'Quit India' 207
- One Nation
- or Two? 216
- Independence and Partition 220
- The Assassination 223.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0582319781
- OCLC:
- 47521302
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