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Gandhi Before India

In 1893, when Mohandas Gandhi set sail for South Africa, he was a twenty three year old brief less lawyer who failed to establish himself in India. In this remarkable Biography, Ramchandra Gotha argues that the two decades that Gandhi spent in South Africa were to be the making of the Mahatma. It wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ramachandra Guha
Format: Printed Book
Published: New Delhi Allen Lane / Penguin Books 2013
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Gandhi from all angles
  • 1. Middle caste, middle rank
  • 2. Among the vegetarians
  • 3. From coast to coast
  • 4. A barrister in Durban
  • 5. Travelling activist
  • 6. Lawyer-loyalist
  • 7. White against brown
  • 8. Pluralist and puritan
  • 9. Trouble in the Transvaal
  • 10. A lobbyist in London
  • 11. From conciliation to confrontation
  • 12. To jail
  • 13. A Tolstoyan in Johannesburg
  • 14. Prisoner of conscience
  • 15. Big little chief
  • 16. The contest of civilizations
  • 17. Seeking a settlement
  • 18. A son departs, a mentor arrives
  • 19. A physician at Phoenix
  • 20. Breaking boundaries
  • 21. Farewell to Africa
  • 22. How the Mahatma was made.