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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - LAST REVIEWED: 28 August 2019
- LAST MODIFIED: 28 August 2019
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195399318-0225
- LAST REVIEWED: 28 August 2019
- LAST MODIFIED: 28 August 2019
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195399318-0225
Allen, Douglas. Mahatma Gandhi (Critical Lives). London: Reaktion Books, 2011.
A fresh analysis of Mahatma Gandhi’s life, with emphasis on the satyagraha movement. Includes a critical evaluation of various topics such as exploitation, colonialism, oppression, social revolution, and Gandhi’s relevance for the modern world.
Brown, Judith M., ed. The Essential Writings of Mahatma Gandhi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
A selection of Gandhi’s writings encapsulating the topics of ahiṃsā, God, self-discipline, satya, swarāj, and satyagraha, including references to figures that influenced his life and work.
Brown, Judith M., and Anthony Parel, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
A comprehensive volume with twelve chapters written by internationally renowned scholars on various aspects of Gandhi’s life, methods, and legacy. The first part traces Gandhi’s extraordinary story from his early life as a lawyer in South Africa, to his later period as a skilled political activist and leader of civil resistance in India,
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi[c] (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948)[2] was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (from Sanskrit, meaning great-souled, or venerable), first applied to him in South Africa in 1914, is now used throughout the world.[3]
Born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, Gandhi trained in the law at the Inner Temple in London and was called to the bar at the age of 22. After two uncertain years in India, where he was unable to start a successful law practice, Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit. He went on to live in South Africa for 21 years. Here, Gandhi raised a family and first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights. In 1915, aged 45, he returned to India and soon set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against discrimination and ex
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