The Life of Mahatma Gandhi

Fischer, Louis
Publisher:  Harper & Brothers, New York
Year Published:  1950  
Pages:  558pp  
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX14947

A biography.

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Table of Contents

Part One
The End and the Beginning

1 Death Before Prayers
2 The Beginnings of an Extraordinary Man
3 "M.K. Gandhi. Attorney-at-Law"
4 Gandhi and the Gita
5 Indian Interlude
6 Toward Greatness
7 A Mob Scene
8 Gandhi Goes to War
9 The Transformation Begins
10 September 11, 1906
11 Gandhi Goes to Jail
12 Letter to a Son
13 Tolstoy and Gandhi
14 The Shape of Things to Come
15 The Victory

Part Two
Gandhi in India, January 9, 1915-March 23, 1946

16 Home in India
17 "Sit Down, Gandhi"
18 "Children of God"
19 Indigo
20 First Fast
21 Goat's Milk
22 The History of British Rule in India
23 Murder
24 Gandhi Enters Politics
25 Gandhi's Families
26 Operation and Fast
27 Funds and Jewels
28 The "Silent" Year
29 Collpse
30 Prologue
31 Drama at the Seashore
32 Parleys with the Rebel
33 On the Way Home
34 Climax
35 Without Politics
36 Descent into War
37 Winston S. Churchill verus Mohandas K. Gandhi
38 My Week with Gandhi
39 Will Power
40 Jinnah and Gandhi

Part Three
The Birth of Two Nations, March 23, 1946-January 30, 1948

41 On the Eve of Independence
42 India in Suspense
43 Gandhi Revisited
44 Pilgrim's Progress
45 Asia's Message to the West
46 Tragic Victory
47 Gandhi Hoes His Garden
48 The Future of India
49 The Last Fast
50 The Last Act

A Note to the Reader (Sources and Biblipgraphy)

Index

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