Title:
Great soul : Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India / Joseph Lelyveld.
Author:
Lelyveld, Joseph.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Call Number:
DS481 .G3 L337 2011
Abstract:
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.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780307269584
Physical Description:
xv, 425 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
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.
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