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

Lelyveld, Joseph. (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0307269582
  • ISBN: 9780307269584
  • Physical Description: xv, 425 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
Nationalists > India > Biography.
Statesmen > India > Biography.
India > Politics and government > 1919-1947.
South Africa > Politics and government > 1836-1909.
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 9 of 9 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Rockingham County Public Library.

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