Title:
The force born of truth : Mohandas Gandhi and the Salt March, India, 1930 / by Betsy Kuhn.
Author:
Kuhn, Betsy.
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, ©2011.
Call Number:
DS481.G3 K75 2011
Abstract:
This book follows Mohandas Gandhi's development of his nonviolent protest theories from his days as a young lawyer in South Africa to his later leadership in India. In a defining civil rights gesture Gandhi defied Great Britain's salt monopoly in India when he led a march to a beach and picked up a handful of salt.
ISBN:
9780822589686
Series:
Civil rights struggles around the world
Civil rights struggles around the world.
Physical Description:
160 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, photographs ; 23 cm.
Subject Term:
Contents:
Young Gandhi -- Gandhi in South Africa -- Gandhi returns to India -- Setting the stage -- The Salt March -- Gandhi breaks the salt laws -- The end of the Raj -- "A message for the whole world."
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