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Americans India Biography Americans Political activity India Asia Foreign relations 1945- Asia Politics and government 1945- Europeans Political activity India India History 1947- India History British occupation, 1765-1947 Biography Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Politicians Asia Biography Statesmen India BiographyGuha, Ramachandra.
Summary: A first volume of a series detailing the life and work of the influential political advocate draws on private papers and other untapped sources to cover his birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, discussing his London education and decades as a lawyer in South Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANDHI, MAHATMA GUHGuha, Ramachandra
Summary: This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades: to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India's Hindu and Muslim populations, to end the pernicious Hindu practice of untouchability, and to develop India's economic and moral self-reliance. We see how in each of these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANDHI, MAHATMA GUHGuha, Ramachandra
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of India After Gandhi: a group biography of seven remarkable men and women who arrived in India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in order to join the freedom movement and struggle for a country and peopleother than their own"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.03 GUHGuha, Ramachandra.
Summary: Born in privation and civil war, divided by caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. This remarkable book tells the full story--the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories--of the world's largest and least likely democracy. Social historian Guha writes of the protests and conflicts that have peppered the history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2007