Gandhi's passion : the life and legacy of Mahatma Gandhi /

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"Wolpert chronicles the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his early days as a child of privilege to his humble rise to power and his assassination at the hands of a man of his own faith. This trajectory, like that of Christ, was the result of Gandhi's passion: his conscious courting of suffering...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wolpert, Stanley, 1927-2019
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Gandhi, > Mahatma, > 1869-1948.
Gandhi.
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, > (1869-1948)
Statesmen > India > Biography.
Nationalists > India > Biography.
Hommes d'État > Inde > Biographies.
Nationalistes > Inde > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY.
Nationalists.
Statesmen.
Hommes d'État > Inde.
India.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Midnight in Calcutta
  • Dawn in Gujarat
  • The impact of Victorian London
  • Brief interlude at home
  • Early traumas and triumphs in South Africa
  • Between two worlds
  • Satyagraha in South Africa
  • Victory through suffering
  • The impact of World War I
  • Postwar carnage and nationwide Satyagraha
  • Cotton spinning
  • Rising of the poison
  • The road back to Satyagraha
  • The salt march and prison aftermath
  • From prison to London and back
  • Imprisoned soul of India
  • Return to rural uplift work
  • Prelude to war and partition
  • War and peaceful resistance
  • War behind bars
  • No peace
  • Walking alone
  • Freedom's wooden loaf
  • Great Soul's death in Delhi
  • His Indian legacy
  • His global legacy.

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