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Book SynopsisThe pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India''s independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience (satyagraha), honoured in India as ''father of nation'', Mohandas K. Gandhi has inspired movements for civil rights and political freedom across the world.Jad Adams offers a concise and elegant account of Gandhi''s life: from his birth and upbringing in a small princely state in Gujarat during the high noon of the British Raj, to his assassination at the hands of a Hindu extremist in 1948 only months after the birth of the independent India which he himself he had done so much to bring about. He delineates the principal events of a career that may truly be said to have changed the world: his training as a barrister in late Victorian London; his civil rights work in Boer War-era South Africa; his leadership of the Indian National Congress; his focus on obtaining self-government and control of all Indian government institutions,
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Table of Contents
Maps: The Partition of India, 1947; South Africa, 1893. Introduction: Naked Ambition. Childhood and Marriage. London Lessons. Adventures in Natal. Challenge and Chastity. The Army of the Poor. Village Activist. Arousing India. The Salt March. World Icon. Quit India. Partition and Death. Legacy. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index.
