The Good Boatman: A Study of Gandhi: A Portrait of Ghandi - Softcover

Ghandi, Rajmohan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014025563X ISBN 13: 9780140255638

Verlag: Penguin, 1997

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A new and illuminating portrait of one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has been the subject of over a dozen well-regarded biographies, yet key aspects of the man still prove elusive. In this book, Rajmohan Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and an acclaimed biographer and scholar, attempts to understand the phenomenon that was Gandhi. This he does by examining in detail dominant and varied themes of Gandhi's life"his unsuccessful bid to keep India united, his attitude towards caste and untouchability; his relationship with those whose empire he challenged; his controversial experiments with chastity; his views on God, truth and non-violence; and his selection of heirs to lead a new-born nation. For a generation growing up on images of a simplified Father of the Nation and apostle of non-violence frozen in statues or reduced to a few predictable strokes of an artist's pen, this biography offers a rewarding insight into the man, his victories and his defeats.

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Rajmohan Gandhi is an Indian historian. He is a biographer and a research professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US. He is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari.

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• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 014025563X
• ISBN 13: 9780140255638
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
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