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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Gandhi, Mahatma |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph Lelyveld |
| ISBN: | 9780307389954 0307389952 |
| OCLC Number: | 741540087 |
| Description: | xv, 425 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. South Africa. Prologue: an unwelcome visitor -- No-touchism -- Among Zulus -- Upper house -- Leading the indentured -- pt. 2. India. Waking India -- Unapproachability -- Hail, deliverer -- Fast unto death -- Village of service -- Mass mayhem -- Do or die. |
| Responsibility: | Joseph Lelyveld. |
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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.
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