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

Title
: 
Great soul : Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India

Author
: 
Lelyveld, Joseph.

ISBN
: 
9780307389954

Personal Author
: 
Lelyveld, Joseph.

Edition
: 
1st Vintage Books ed.

Publication Information
: 
New York : Vintage Books, 2012.

Physical 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.

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.

Personal Subject
: 
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.

Subject Term
: 
Statesmen -- India -- Biography.
 
Nationalists -- India -- Biography.

Geographic Term
: 
India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947.
 
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1836-1909.


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