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Great soul : Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India / Joseph Lelyveld.

By: Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 425 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780307269584 :
  • 0307269582 :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS481.G3 L337 2011
Contents:
South Africa -- Prologue : an unwelcome visitor -- No-touchism -- Among Zulus -- Upper house -- Leading the indentured -- India -- Waking India -- Unapproachability -- Hail, deliverer -- Fast unto death -- Village of service -- Mass mayhem -- Do or die.
Summary: In this ambitious, original study, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtrodden--against Gandhi's own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history.

"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In this ambitious, original study, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtrodden--against Gandhi's own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history.

South Africa -- Prologue : an unwelcome visitor -- No-touchism -- Among Zulus -- Upper house -- Leading the indentured -- India -- Waking India -- Unapproachability -- Hail, deliverer -- Fast unto death -- Village of service -- Mass mayhem -- Do or die.

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