Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi. Stanley Wolpert

Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi



Download Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi



Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi Stanley Wolpert ebook pdf
Publisher:
Language: English
Page: 336
ISBN: 019515634X, 9781423722496

From Publishers Weekly

Wolpert, a professor emeritus in South Asian history at UCLA, is well versed in the politics of India and has written numerous books on that country and its neighbor Pakistan. His new work is not so much a book on how Gandhi came to be the Mahatma, or India's "Great Soul," but a chronicle of India's independence movement after WWI and the communal violence that led to the 1947 partition along religious lines. The most absorbing part of the book shows how Gandhi's legal training at Inner Temple in London and his work to protect the rights of Indians in South Africa at the turn of the century led to his agitation for Home Rule in India. Wolpert skillfully uses Gandhi's own writings there are 90 volumes of his collected works and descriptions of meetings and travels to organize mass passive resistance, including boycotts and marches, to explain how Gandhi's nonviolent resistance, or Satyagraha, essentially forced the British to grant dominion status to 300 million Indians. However, Wolpert does not convincingly illustrate how Gandhi came to believe in nonviolence and how he transformed himself from a rich Anglophile and lawyer into a near-godlike figure who valued equality, self-control, celibacy and the relinquishing of wealth and desires. Wolpert touches on the fact that Gandhi's transformation alienated his children and wife (whom he married at age 11) even while he expressed an "intensely personal passion" for various Western missionaries and forced some ashram devotees to sleep by him naked. By supplying more detail than useful analysis, Wolpert's effort is ultimately disappointing, and, in the end, Gandhi remains a recognizable but cryptic figure.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.


--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Wolpert (South Asian history, emeritus, UCLA) has written biographies of Indian freedom fighters Jinnah (Jinnah of Pakistan) and Nehru (Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny). While his life of Gandhi is well written, one has to ask why yet another biography of the Father of India? There is no burning issue or question that he raises, nor a great new insight into Gandhi that has not already been discussed in previous biographies. In the introduction, Wolpert notes that the news of the nuclear explosions in India in 1998 prompted him to undertake this book on the apostle of nonviolence. What he has produced, however, is yet another general biography of one of the most remarkable men of the 20th century. Only libraries collecting in depth on India need consider this title, which does not supplant Gandhi studies by Erik Ericsson, Louis Fischer, or B.R. Nanda. Donald Clay Johnson, Univ. of Minnesota Lib., Minneapolis
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



MORE EBOOKS:
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2) ebook free download
Measuring Intelligence: Facts and Fallacies ebook free download







Tags: Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi ebook pdf epub djvu mobi rar
Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi pdf epub djvu free download
Download Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi free ebook pdf epub
Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi read online free book
Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi cheap ebook for kindle and nook
Stanley Wolpert ebooks and audio books
Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi download pdf epub rar rapidshare mediafire fileserve 4shared torrent depositfiles scribd