Mahatma Gandhi
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Preface; Introduction: Truth Transcends History; Childhood in Gujarat; The Importance of Being a Gentleman; A Collie Lawyer; The Birth of Satyagraha; Encounters with Indian Peasants; The Problems of Non-cooperation; The Message of the Spinning Wheel; The Significance of Bardoli; A Symbolic Revolution; The Pact with the Viceroy; Frustrations at the Round Table; Fasting for the Untouchables; The Mahatma and his Party; Overthrowing a Rival; The Second World War; Do or Die; The Spectre of Pakistan; The Challenge of the Atom Bomb; Partition and Death; Rejected Heritage; Bibliography; Index.

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Prof. Dietmar Rothermund, Ph.D., FRHistS, is head of the History Department, South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, Germany and chairman, European Association of South Asian Studies. He studied history and philosophy at Marburg and Munich Universities, Germany, and at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. His publications include Government, Landlord and Peasant in India (1978), India in the Great Depression, 1929-1939 (1932), An Economic History of India (2nd edn., 1993), Mahatma Gandhi: A Political Biography (3rd edn. 1999), (with H. Kulke) A History of India (3rd edn. 1998).

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