The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Mohandas K. Gandhi; Mahatma Gandhi

ISBN 10: 0140236864 / ISBN 13: 9780140236866

Published by Penguin Books, 1995

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pp. xxi + 295 Index 1st Published. Seller Inventory # 2634196

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Publisher: Penguin Books

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Edition: 2nd Edition

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Synopsis:

"With this rich and interesting ensemble of essays, we finally have a handy sourcebook of Gandhi's writings."—The Journal of Asian Studies.

About the Author:

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbander. He was called to the Bar. He was not very successful as a Barrister-at-las in India and he moved to South Africa in 1893. In South Africa, he was unable to accept the official policy of racial discrimination and launched a series of non-violent protests.

Rudrangshu Mukherjee was born in 1952 and educated at Presidency College, Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He was awarded a D.Phil. in Modern History in 1981 by the University of Oxford. he is the author of Awadh in Revolt 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance: and an editor of Trade and the Indian Ocean World: Essasy in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta.