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New Delhi:  Gandhi Peace Foundation, 1985.

Kishwar, Madhu.

sharlit deyzac biography of mahatma gandhi

Subhash Chandra Bose had called him ‘Father of the Nation’ in his message on Hind Azad Radio.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, a small town in Gujarat, on the sea coast of Western India. When a European magistrate in Durban asked him to take off his turban, he refused and left the courtroom. Read More

Gandhi: A Select Bibliographic Guide

by Vinay Lal 

A minimal familiarity with the outlines of Gandhi’s life might be acquired by consulting any one of the following biographies:   Geoffrey Ashe, Gandhi (New York, 1969); Judith Brown, Gandhi:  Prisoner of Hope (Yale, 1990): Louis Fischer, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (New York, 1950); Dhananjay Keer, Mahatma Gandhi:  Political Saint and Unarmed Prophet (Bombay, 1973); B.

R. Nanda, Mahatma Gandhi: A Biography (1st ed., 1958; expanded edition, New Delhi:  Oxford UP, 1981); and Robert Payne, The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi (Dutton, 1969). Mahatma Gandhi's Satyagraha was based on true principles and non-violence.

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. New Delhi:  Motilal Banarsidass, 1978.

Swan, Maureen.

Hind Swaraj:  A Fresh Look. Gandhi had sailed to South Africa as a young inexperienced barrister in search of fortune. 40-41 (1985).]

Nanda, B. R.  Gandhi and His Critics. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi: Death

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 by Nathuram Godse.

Delhi:  Manushi Prakashan, 1986. University of Notre Dame Press, 1983.

Dalton, Dennis. Among the more creative anthologies, the following readily come to mind:  Pushpa Joshi, ed., Gandhi on Women (Ahmedabad:  Navajivan Publishing House, 1998, in association with Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi; cf.

The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi. His simplistic lifestyle won him, admirers, both in India and the outside world. Because of his wedding, at least about one year, his studies were disturbed and later he joined and completed his schooling. They did not quite know why; they did not quite know what he stood for. Boston:  Beacon Press, 1992.

Khanna, Suman.

He further observed that this type of incident was quite common against his fellow Indians who were derogatorily referred to as coolies.

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On 22 May 1894 Gandhi established the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and worked hard to improve the rights of Indians in South Africa.

Critical of Gandhi but not wholly persuasive.

Terchek, Ronald J.  Gandhi:  Struggling for Autonomy. British authorities arrested Gandhi in March 1922 and tried him for sedition; he was sentenced to six years in prison but was released in 1924 after undergoing an operation for appendicitis. The talks however were unsuccessful.