Gandhi's passion : the life and legacy of Mahatma Gandhi (Record no. 62712)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 019513060X |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 954.035 |
| Item number | WOL/G |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Wolpert,Stanley A |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Gandhi's passion : the life and legacy of Mahatma Gandhi |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Oxford |
| Name of publisher | OUP |
| Year of publication | 2001 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii, 308p. [16] p. of plates |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | More than half a century after his death, Mahatma Gandhi continues to inspire millions throughout the world. Yet modern India, most strikingly in its decision to join the nuclear arms race, seems to have abandoned much of his nonviolent vision. Inspired by recent events in India, Stanley Wolpert offers this subtle and profound biography of India's "Great Soul."Wolpert compellingly chronicles the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his early days as a child of privilege to his humble rise to power and his assassination at the hands of a man of his own faith. This trajectory, like that of Christ, was the result of Gandhi's passion: his conscious courting of suffering as the means to reach divine truth. From his early campaigns to stop discrimination in South Africa to his leadership of a people's revolution to end the British imperial domination of India, Gandhi emerges as a man of inner conflicts obscured by his political genius and moral vision. Influenced early on by nonviolent teachings in Hinduism, Jainism, Christianity, and Buddhism, he came to insist on the primacy of love for one's adversary in any conflict as the invincible power for change. His unyielding opposition to intolerance and oppression would inspire India like no leader since the Buddha--creating a legacy that would encourage Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, and other global leaders to demand a better world through peaceful civil disobedience.By boldly considering Gandhi the man, rather than the living god depicted by his disciples, Wolpert provides an unprecedented representation of Gandhi's personality and the profound complexities that compelled his actions and brought freedom to India. |
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| Topical Term | Statesmen |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Politics and government |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Civil disobedience |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Mahatma gandhi |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Nationalists |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BK |
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| LC control number | 00045298 |
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| Damaged status | Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 23/09/2021 | 30.00 | 954.035 WOL/G | 53040 | BK |