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  title info:
    title: Gandhi
    sub title: the years that changed the world, 1914-1948
  name:
    name part: Guha, Ramachandra
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First United States edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 1083 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: The second and concluding volume of Ramachandra Guha's magisterial biography that offers the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential and controversial men in world history. This book opens in July 1914, as Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa to return to India. Over the next three decades, Gandhi's daily life would be given over to the epic struggle to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India's Hindus and Muslims, to end the pernicious practice of untouchability, and to nurture India's economic and moral self-reliance. Guha's illuminating narrative follows Gandhi as he works his way into the hierarchy of the nationalist movement, emerging as early as 1919 as its leader as he organizes local and issue-specific campaigns that would lead to the spectacular movement of non-cooperation that spread across the country between 1920 and 1922 (only to be called off by Gandhi himself when a group of his followers burned a police station to the ground), as he spearheads the "Independence Pledge" among his colleagues in the Congress and as he makes the extraordinary three-week-long Salt March, which would force the British, finally, to meet face-to-face with the "half-naked fakir," as Churchill (in)famously called him. In each of these campaigns, Gandhi develops novel methods of nonviolence, strikes, marches and fasts, to successfully challenge not only British authority but the religious orthodoxy and social customs that had afflicted his country for centuries. In reconstructing Gandhi's life and work, Guha has drawn on sixty different archival collections, the most significant a previously unavailable collection of papers belonging to Gandhi himself. He creates a luminous portrait not only of the Mahatma but of those closest to him, among them the political leaders Vallabhbhai Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahadev Desai, his indispensable secretary and confidant, Charles E Andrews, the Christian priest…
  table of contents: Part I. Claiming a nation (1915-1922). The returning hero ; Coming out in Banaras ; Three experiments in Satyagraha ; Going national ; The personal and the political ; Capturing the congress ; The rise and fall of non-cooperation ; The Mahatma from above and below -- Part II. Reaching out to the world (1922-1931). Prisoner number 827 ; Picking up the pieces ; Spinning in Sabarmati ; The moralist ; The memoirist ; Once more into the fray ; Father, son, holy spirit ; The march to the sea ; The prison and the world ; Parleys with proconsuls ; At home in London -- Part III. Reform and renewal (1931-1937). Arguments with Ambedkar ; Shaming the Hindus ; A second sabbatical ; From rebels to rulers -- Part IV. War and rebellion (1937-1944). The world within, and without ; (Re)capturing the congress ; One nation, or two? ; Pilgrimages to Gandhi ; Somewhere between conflict and cooperation ; Towards 'Quit India' ; A bereavement and a fast ; The death of Kasturba -- Part V. The last years (1944-1948). Picking up the pieces (again) ; Prelude to partition ; Marching for peace ; The strangest experiment ; Independence and division ; The greatest fasts ; Martyrdom -- Epilogue: Gandhi in our time.
  note: Ramachandra Guha.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mahatma
      name part: Gandhi
      name part: 1869-1948
  subject:
    topic: Statesmen
    geographic: India
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Nationalists
    geographic: India
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Political activists
    geographic: India
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Pacifists
    geographic: India
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: India
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1919-1947
  subject:
    topic: Political activists
    geographic: India
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: India
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1919-1947
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Social Activists
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
    topic: Asian & Asian American
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Political
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Philosophers
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: Asia
    topic: India & South Asia
  classification: DS481.G3 G825 2018
  classification: 954.03/5092 B
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Gandhi before India
    name:
      name part: Guha, Ramachandra.
  identifier: 9780385532310
  identifier: 0385532318
  identifier: 2018953456
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181003
    record change date: 20190122151432.0
    record identifier: in00004008610