Ramachandra Guha
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xix, 1083 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"The concluding volume of the definitive biography of Gandhi relates his struggles to attain India's independence from England, improve relations between Hindus and Muslims, and develop India's economic self-reliance, all using methods of nonviolence."--
"The second and concluding volume of Ramachandra Guha's magisterial biography that offers the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential -- and controversial...
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x, 672 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
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A first volume of a series detailing the life and work of the influential political advocate draws on private papers and other untapped sources to cover his birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, discussing his London education and decades as a lawyer in South Africa.
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xix, 476 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"From the acclaimed author of India After Gandhi: a group biography of seven remarkable men and women who arrived in India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in order to join the freedom movement and struggle for a country and people other than their own"--
Guha explores the fight for Indian independence by focusing on foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freedom movement fighting...
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xiv, 893 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Born in privation and civil war, divided by caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. This book tells the full story, the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories, of the world's largest and least likely democracy. The author, a social historian writes of the protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free India, but also of the factors and processes that...