Gandhi [electronic resource] / David Arnold.
Few individuals in history have made so great a mark upon their times as Gandhi. And yet he never held high political office, commanded no armies and was not even a compelling orator. His 'power' therefore makes a particularly fascinating subject for investigation. Historian David Arnold e...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
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2014, ©2001.
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| Series: | Profiles in power.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The idea of Gandhi
- A diwan's son
- The India of the princes
- Caste and the Banias
- Gandhi and his family
- Religious life in Kathiawar
- Gandhi in London
- South Africa and self-rule
- Indians in South Africa
- A lawyer in Natal
- 'Truth-force'
- The mantle of Mahatma
- 'Civilisation' and 'slavery'
- Peasant power
- Village India
- The Raj and the Congress
- Gandhi in Champaran
- The Kheda Satyagraha
- The Ahmedabad Strike of 1918
- A peasant congress?
- Power to the nation
- Gandhi and the First World War
- The Rowlatt Satyagraha
- Congress reorganisation
- Non-cooperation and civil disobedience
- Khadi and the constructive programme
- Trial and imprisonment
- 'Half-naked fakir'
- The Swarajists and the Bardoli Satyagraha
- 'Simon go back'
- The salt satyagraha
- Civil disobedience
- The Gandhi-Irwin Pact
- London and the Round Table Conference
- The lone satyagrahi: Gandhi, religion and society
- Gandhi's religion
- Caste and untouchability
- The 'epic fast' and Harijan campaign
- Gandhi adrift
- Women and gendered politics
- Gandhi in old age: triumph or nemesis?
- Gandhi, Nehru and Bose
- The office question
- 'Quit India'
- One nation--or two?
- Independence and partition
- The assassination.