02592cam a2200361 i 4500 354653853 TxAuBib 20181009120000.0 181003s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780385532310 40.00 0385532318 40.00 (OCoLC)1055554421 eng rda TxAuBib rda Guha, Ramachandra. Gandhi [BOOK] : the years that changed the world, 1914-1948 / Ramachandra Guha. New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2018. xix, 1083 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Second and concluding volume of Ramachandra Guha's Gandhi Before India. "This Is A Borzoi Book". Includes bibliographical references (pages 897-989) and index. This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades: to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India's Hindu and Muslim populations, to end the pernicious Hindu practice of untouchability, and to develop India's economic and moral self-reliance. We see how in each of these campaigns, Gandhi adapted methods of nonviolence--strikes, marches, fasts--that successfully challenged British authority, religious orthodoxy, social customs, and would influence non-violent, revolutionary movements throughout the world. In reconstructing Gandhi's life and work, Ramachandra Guha has drawn on sixty different archival collections, the most significant among them, a previously unavailable collection of papers belonging to Gandhi himself. Using this wealth of material, Guha creates a portrait of Gandhi and of those closest to him--family, friends, political and social leaders--that illuminates the complexity inside his thinking, his motives, his actions and their outcomes as he engaged with every important aspect of social and public life in the India of his time. Provided by publisher. 20181009. Gandhi Mahatma (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) 1869-1948. Statesmen India Biography. Pacifists India Biography. Nationalists India Biography. Political activists India Biography. India Politics and government 1919-1947. Biographies.