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Gandhi's Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India
by DHIRENDRA JHAThe life of Nathuram Godse, the man who shot GandhiDhirendra Jha's deeply researched history places Nathuram Godse's life as the juncture of the dangerous fault lines in contemporary India: the quest for independence and the rise of Hindu nationalism.On a wintry Delhi evening on 30 January 1948, Nathuram Godse shot Gandhi at point-blank range, forever silencing the man who had delivered independence to his nation. Godse&’s journey to this moment of international notoriety from small towns in western India is, by turns, both riveting and wrenching. Drawing from previously unpublished archival material, Jha challenges the standard account of Gandhi&’s assassination, and offers a stunning view on the making of independent India.Born to Brahmin parents, Godse started off as a child mystic. However, success eluded him. The caste system placed him at the top of society but the turbulent times meant that he soon became a disaffected youth, desperately seeking a position in the infant nation.In such confusing times, Godse was one of hundreds, and later thousands, of young Indian men to be steered into the sheltering fold of early Hindutva, Indian nationalism. His association with early formations of the RSS and far-right thinkers such as Sarvakar proves that he was not working alone. Today he is considered to be a patriotic hero by many for his act of bravery, despite being found guilty in court and executed in 1949.
Gandhijiyin Irudhi 200 Naatkal: காந்திஜியின் இறுதி 200 நாட்கள்
by V. Ramamurthyஇந்நூலில் காந்திஜியின் கடைசி 200 நாட்கள் ஆவணப்படுத்தப்பட்டிருக்கின்றன. மேலும் அவர் தன்னுடைய கடைசி 200 நாட்களில் மக்களுக்காக எவ்வளவு பாடுபட்டார் என்பதை பற்றி வி. ராமமூர்த்தி மிகவும் அவர்கள் மிகுந்த பொறுப்புணர்வுடன் கூறியுள்ளார்.
Gandhijinu Jivan — Emnaj Shabdoma
by Krishna Kruplaniહું મારા ઘરની આસપાસ દીવાલ ચણી લેવા તથા મારી બારીઓ બંધ કરી દેવા નથી માગતો. મારા ઘરની આસપાસ સઘળા દેશોની સંસ્કૃતિના પવનની લહેરીઓ છૂટથી વાતી રહે એમ હું ઇચ્છું છું. પણ પવનની એવી કોઈ લહરી દ્વારા જમીનથી અધ્ધર થઈ જવાનો હું ઇનકાર કરું છું. સાહિત્યમાં રસ ધરાવતાં આપણાં તરુણ સ્ત્રીપુરુષો અંગ્રેજી ભાષા તેમ જ બીજી વિશ્વભાષાઓ પેટ ભરીને શીખે એમ હું ઇચ્છું છું. અને પછી તેઓ જગદીશચંદ્ર બોઝ, પ્રફુલ્લચંદ્ર રોય અને કવિવર રવીન્દ્રનાથ ટાગોરની પેઠે પોતાના અભ્યાસનો લાભ હિંદને તથા દુનિયાને આપે એવી તેમની પાસેથી અપેક્ષા રાખું. પરંતુ એક પણ હિંદવાસી પોતાની માતૃભાષાને ભૂલે, તેની અવગણના કરે કે તેનાથી શરમાય અથવા પોતાની માતૃભાષામાં પોતે વિચાર કરી શકતો નથી કે પોતાના વિચારો સારામાં સારી રીતે દર્શાવી શકતો નથી એમ તેને લાગે, એમ હું ઇચ્છતો નથી. મારો ધર્મ ચોકાપંથી નથી. — ગાંધીજી
Gandhijiki Sankshipt Aatmakatha: गांधीजीकी संक्षिप्त आत्मकथा
by Kashinath Trivediबापूकी 'आत्मकथा' एक बड़ा ग्रंथ है। इस पुस्तकमें उसका सार तैयार किया गया है। ऐसा करते समय बापूके लेखन-क्रम, भाषा इत्यादिको प्रायः मूलके जैसा ही रखा गया है। केवल विषयको संक्षिप्त करने और सिलसिला जोड़नेके लिए कहीं-कहीं नयी भाषाका प्रयोग किया गया है। अतः सहज रूपसे यह कहा जा सकता है कि इस संक्षिप्त आत्मकथा' का ९९.९९ से भी अधिक भाग मूलका अवतरण ही है। इस 'संक्षिप्त आत्मकथा' को नये ढंगसे विभक्त किया गया है और कुछ अध्यायोंको उन विषयों के अनुरूप नये नाम दिये गये हैं। अध्यायों की गिनती प्रत्येक खण्डकी अलग-अलग न करके समूची पुस्तककी एक ही रखी गई है। बापूकी 'आत्मकथा' एक ऐसा ग्रंथ है, जो बापूको समझने में बहुत सहायक होता है। इसका संक्षिप्त संस्करण तैयार करनेका यह प्रयास इस अभिलाषासे किया गया है कि यह विशिष्ट व्यक्तियोंको और खासकर नयी पीढ़ीको बापूका अभ्यास करनेके लिए प्रेरित करे।
Gandhiji (Gujarati)
by Jugatram Daveગૂજરાત વિદ્યાપીઠ તરફથી દર વરસે ગાંધીજયંતીને દિવસે ‘ગાંધીજીવન-ઝાંખી‘ની પરીક્ષા લેવાય છે. પાંચથી સાત ધોરણના વિદ્યાર્થીઓ માટેની આ પરીક્ષામાં કુદસિયા જૈદીનું ‘ગાંધીબાપુ‘ પુસ્તક શરૂથી પાઠ્યપુસ્તક તરીકે ચાલે છે. ચાલુ વરસથી આ પુસ્તક ઉપરાંત ગાંધીજીના જીવનના પ્રસંગો આલેખતું સ્વ. શ્રી જુગતરામ દવેનું ‘ગાંધીજી‘ પુસ્તક પણ પાઠ્યપુસ્તક તરીકે ઉમેરવાનું નક્કી થયું છે. એ પુસ્તકની પહેલી આવૃત્તિ 1929માં પ્રસિદ્ધ થયેલી. આજ સુધીમાં તેની લગભગ લાખ જેટલી નકલો વેચાઈ છે. આ પુસ્તક એ જ પુસ્તકની પરીક્ષા માટેની રાહત દરની ખાસ આવૃત્તિ છે. પરીક્ષામાં બેસનાર વિદ્યાર્થીઓ ગાંધીજીના જીવન અને કાર્યને વ્યક્ત કરતાં કાવ્યોનો મુખપાઠ કરે તે જરૂરી લાગતાં આ આવૃત્તિમાં તેવાં પાંચ કાવ્યો પુસ્તકને અંતે આપ્યાં છે.
The Gandhian Moment
by Ramin JahanbeglooGandhi is revered as a historic leader, the father of Indian independence, and the inspiration for nonviolent protest around the world. But the importance of these practical achievements has obscured Gandhi’s stature as an extraordinarily innovative political thinker. Ramin Jahanbegloo presents Gandhi the political theorist-the intellectual founder of a system predicated on the power of nonviolence to challenge state sovereignty and domination. A philosopher and an activist in his own right, Jahanbegloo guides us through Gandhi’s core ideas, shows how they shaped political protest from 1960s America to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond, and calls for their use today by Muslims demanding change. Gandhi challenged mainstream political ideas most forcefully on sovereignty. He argued that state power is not legitimate simply when it commands general support or because it protects us from anarchy. Instead, legitimacy depends on the consent of dutiful citizens willing to challenge the state nonviolently when it acts immorally. The culmination of the inner struggle to recognize one’s duty to act, Jahanbegloo says, is the ultimate “Gandhian moment. ” Gandhi’s ideas have motivated such famous figures as Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama. As Jahanbegloo demonstrates, they also inspired the unheralded Muslim activists Abul Kalam Azad and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, whose work for Indian independence answers those today who doubt the viability of nonviolent Islamic protest. The book is a powerful reminder of Gandhi’s enduring political relevance and a pioneering account of his extraordinary intellectual achievements.
Gandhi the Man
by Eknath EaswaranThis is the moving story of a nonviolent hero, illustrated with more than 70 photographs, and told by a highly respected author who grew up in Gandhi's India.Gandhi's life continues to inspire and baffle readers today. How did an unsuccessful young lawyer become the Mahatma, the "great soul" who led 400 million Indians in their struggle for independence from the British Empire? What is nonviolence, and how does it work?Easwaran answers these questions and gives a vivid account of the turning points and choices in Gandhi's life that made him an icon of nonviolence. Easwaran witnessed at firsthand how Gandhi inspired ordinary people to turn fear into fearlessness, and anger into love. He visited Gandhi in his ashram to find out more about this human alchemy, and during the prayer meeting watched the Mahatma absorbed in meditation on the Bhagavad Gita, the scripture that was the wellspring of his spiritual power.Quotations highlight Gandhi's teachings in his own words, and sidebar notes and a chronology, new to this updated edition, provide historical context.This book conveys the spirit and soul of Gandhi - the only way he can be truly understood.
The Gandhi Story, In His Own Words
by Mahendra MeghaniM. Meghani: "For years it has been my earnest desire that these two books may be read widely all over the world, especially by the young generation. But their great length made it difficult... The lapse of copyright in Gandhi's writings (2008) made it possible for me to attempt a combined condensation of the two volumes. Both were written... in the 1920s in Gujarati and translated into English... Now the condensations too are available in both languages."<P>Born in Mumbai and educated in Bhavnagar, Mumbai and Ahmedabad, Mahendra Meghani left Columbia University and settled in India to live a lifestyle congruent with his values. Inspired by Gandhi to a life of voluntary simplicity and service, this son of the legendary Gujarati poet Shri Jhaverchand Meghani -- named by Gandhi as the national poet of India -- carried forth his father's legacy to bring world literature to Gujaratis, and Gujarati literature to the world.<P>To these ends Mahendra became a translator, editor, bookseller, and publisher, and shifted the cultural narrative of his community with Lokmilap -- his innovative publishing co-operative making quality reading accessible to the poorest.<P>An octogenarian in 2009, his and his father's dream of replicating their bookstore in every district of Gujarat hasn't yet materialised, though Bookshare may have helped advance it a few paces.
Gandhi, Smuts & Race in the British Empire: Of Passive & Violent Resistance
by Peter BaxterTowards the end of 1906, a meeting took place between two emerging giants of the age, Mohandas K. Gandhi and General Jan Christian Smuts. United under the same empire, but separated by distance and culture, Smuts was born in the Cape Colony, and Gandhi in Porbandar, a duchy of the Indian province of Gujarat. Both, however, went on to study law in Britain, and while developing a great admiration for the institutions of empire, each man also suffered his own particular crisis of faith. From their widely dispersed origins, Gandhi and Smuts collided over the issue of race and equality in a turbulent province of the empire, each attempting to hold the British to their stated ideals. This insightful book explores attitudes to race, and belonging, in an age when the English speaking peoples straddled the globe, and sought to impose on all of their subject races, basking under the radiance of Britannia, a common ideal of parity, equal opportunity and free movement.
Gandhi: गांधी: कार्य व विचारप्रणाली
by Prof. Bhaskar Ramchandra Bapatगांधी आणि माओ या आधुनिक काळातील दोन अलौकिक क्रांतिकारक व्यक्ती होत. ‘पॉवर ग्रोज आउट ऑफ द बॅरल ऑफ ए गन’ असे म्हणणाऱ्या माओचे गांधींशी काय साम्य असे प्रथमतः वाटते. वरील वचनामध्ये माओ शासनसत्तेविषयी विलक्षण जागरूकता दाखवितो; समाजिक व्यवहारात सत्ता कोणाच्या हाती आहे हा मोक्याचा प्रश्न असतो हे स्पष्ट करतो. गांधी अराज्यवादी म्हणून ओळखले जातात.
Gandhi in the West
by Sean ScalmerThe non-violent protests of civil rights activists and anti-nuclear campaigners during the 1960s helped to redefine Western politics. But where did they come from? Sean Scalmer uncovers their history in an earlier generation's intense struggles to understand and emulate the activities of Mahatma Gandhi. He shows how Gandhi's non-violent protests were the subject of widespread discussion and debate in the USA and UK for several decades. Though at first misrepresented by Western newspapers, they were patiently described and clarified by a devoted group of cosmopolitan advocates. Small groups of Westerners experimented with Gandhian techniques in virtual anonymity and then, on the cusp of the 1960s, brought these methods to a wider audience. The swelling protests of later years increasingly abandoned the spirit of non-violence, and the central significance of Gandhi and his supporters has therefore been forgotten. This book recovers this tradition, charts its transformation, and ponders its abiding significance.
Gandhi for Kids: His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities
by Ellen MahoneyConnecting Gandhi's ideas and his life's work to contemporary issues this useful resource for parents and teachers makes Gandhi relevant for kids today. Packed with historic images, the book includes informative sidebars; a time line, glossary, and resource section, along with 21 activities that illuminate Gandhi's life, environment, and ideas.
Gandhi & Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed An Empire and Forged Our Age
by Arthur HermanMohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led. Both became living icons, idolized and admired around the world. Today, they remain enduring models of leadership in a democratic society. Yet the truth was Churchill and Gandhi were bitter enemies throughout their lives. This book reveals, for the first time, how that rivalry shaped the twentieth century and beyond. For more than forty years, from 1906 to 1948, Gandhi and Churchill were locked in a tense struggle for the hearts and minds of the British public, and of world opinion. Although they met only once, their titanic contest of wills would decide the fate of nations, continents, peoples, and ultimately an Empire. Here is a sweeping epic with a fascinating supporting cast, and a brilliant narrative parable of two men whose great successes were always haunted by personal failure - and whose final moments of triumph were overshadowed by the loss of what they held most dear.
Gandhi, CEO: 14 Principles to Guide & Inspire Modern Leaders (Ceo Ser.)
by Alan AxelrodFourteen lessons to instruct, inspire, and encourage, drawn from the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s true leaders.Gandhi, a CEO? Absolutely—and an incomparable example for our uncertain times, when we need leaders we can trust and admire. Not only was he a moral and intensely spiritual man, but also a supremely practical manager and a powerful agent for change, able to nurture the rebirth of an entire nation. To achieve this goal, he mastered the elements of personal leadership and institutional management. In this enlightening book, historian and bestselling business writer Alan Axelrod looks at this much-studied man in a way nobody has before, employing his engaging, conversational style to bring each lesson to life through quotes and vivid examples from Gandhi’s life.
Gandhi Bharat Se Pahle: गांधी भारत से पहले
by Ramchandra Guha1893 में, जब मोहनदास गांधी ने दक्षिण अफ्रीका के लिए समुद्री यात्रा की, वह एक संक्षिप्त वकील थे जो भारत में खुद को स्थापित करने में विफल रहे थे। इस उल्लेखनीय जीवनी में, रामचंद्र गुहा का तर्क है कि गांधी ने डायस्पोरा में जो दो दशक बिताए, वे महात्मा के निर्माण थे। यहीं पर उन्होंने उस दर्शन और तकनीक को गढ़ा जो अंततः ब्रिटिश साम्राज्य को नष्ट कर देगा। चार महाद्वीपों में अभिलेखीय शोध के आधार पर, यह पुस्तक असंतुष्ट पंथों के साथ गांधी के प्रयोगों, उनकी दोस्ती और दुश्मनी और एक पति और पिता के रूप में उनकी विफलताओं की पड़ताल करती है। गांधी भारत से पहले कहानी बताती है कि कैसे उन्होंने एक क्रॉस-क्लास और अंतर-धार्मिक गठबंधन को लामबंद किया, एक नस्लवादी शासन के खिलाफ उनकी लड़ाई में अहिंसा का संकल्प लिया। गहन शोध और खूबसूरती से लिखी गई यह पुस्तक आधुनिक भारत के महानतम व्यक्ति के बारे में हमारी समझ और प्रशंसा को मौलिक रूप से बदल देगी।
Gandhi Before India
by Ramachandra GuhaThe first volume of a magisterial biography: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential--and controversial--men in modern history. Here is a revelatory work of biography that takes us from Gandhi's birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his 2 years as a student in London, and his 2 decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa. Ramachandra Guha has uncovered a myriad of previously untapped documents, including: private papers of Gandhi's contemporaries and co-workers; contemporary newspapers and court documents; the writings of Gandhi's children; secret files kept by British Empire functionaries. Using this wealth of material in a brilliantly nuanced narrative, Guha describes the social, political and personal worlds in which Gandhi began his journey to become the modern era's most important and influential political actor. And Guha makes clear that Gandhi's work in South Africa--far from being a mere prelude to his accomplishments in India--was profoundly influential on his evolution as a political thinker, social reformer and beloved leader.
Gandhi and Marx
by K. G. MashruwalaWhat can be a more fascinating study to us in the present age than that of a comparison between the ideologies of Gandhi, the great soul (mahatma), and Marx, the great thinker (mahamuni)? If the last hundred years or so of the social life of humanity were boiled away, the residue will most likely be these two great names. Lenin is ingested in Marx. And the shadow of Tolstoy spreads over Gandhi. The two ideologies stand face to face, each bent on swallowing up the other. — VINOBA
Gandhi
by Jad Adams"Provocative. Adams strips away Gandhi's saintly aura and explores the duality . . . of India's most famous leader." --Financial Times Jad Adams traces the course of Gandhi's multi-faceted life, and the development of his religious, political, and social thinking over seven tumultuous decades: from his comfortable upbringing in a princely state in Gujarat; his early civil rights campaigns; his leadership through civil disobedience in the 1920s and 1930s that made him a world icon; and finally to his assassination by a Hindu extremist in 1948, only months after the birth of independent India. An elegant and masterly account of one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century history, Adams presents for the first time the true story behind the man whose life may truly be said to have changed the world.
Gandhi: The True Man Behind Modern India
by Jad Adams"Provocative. Adams strips away Gandhi's saintly aura and explores the duality of India's most famous leader."--Financial Times Jad Adams traces the course of Gandhi's multi-faceted life and the development of his religious, political, and social thinking over seven tumultuous decades: from his comfortable upbringing in a princely state in Gujarat; his early civil rights campaigns; his leadership through civil disobedience in the 1920s and 1930s that made him a world icon; and finally to his assassination by a Hindu extremist in 1948, only months after the birth of an independent India. An elegant and masterly account of one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century history, Adams presents for the first time the true story behind the man whose life may truly be said to have changed the world.
Gandhi: Naked Ambition
by Jad AdamsThe pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India's independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance through mass civil disobedience, and the man honoured in India as 'father of the nation', Mohandas K. Gandhi has inspired civil rights and liberation movements the world over.Yet he was also a man of many contradictions: a lifelong pacifist whose treatment of his wife and sons bordered on cruelty; a self-denying ascetic who preached the virtues of chastity in marriage yet experienced a high degree of intimate physical female contact; a political radical whose resistance to racism and appreciation of the value of all religions strike a thoroughly modern note, but whose vision of India was of an almost medieval village nation.In Gandhi: Naked Ambition, Jad Adams delineates Gandhi's searing ambition, including his relentless recreation of his own image, from London dandy to naked wise man; his ruthless sacrifice of his family for his principles; and his role in the tragedy of partition.Using material only recently made available, including the most explicit account yet of Gandhi's sexual experiments with the wives of his followers and his teenage grand-nieces, Jad Adams' accessible and challenging biography reveals the man behind the Mahatma.
Gandhi
by DemiM.k.Gandhi known by his followers as Mahatama--or great soul--was born in India in 1869 and grew up to become one of the most influential and well-respected political and social leaders the world has ever known. An adamant idealist and a courageous thinker, Gandhi identified himself with the struggles of the common people. He won independence for India and is called "Father of India". Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King were followers of Gandhi's teachings.
Gandhi: Portrait of a Friend
by E Stanley Jones Foundation"On the day that Mahatma Gandhi was killed, I arrived in Delhi just an hour and a quarter before the tragedy ... the greatest tragedy since the Son of God died on the cross." So begins this compelling account of Gandhi by E. Stanley Jones, the world-renowned missionary evangelist to India during 40 seething years of struggle. Based on an intimate knowledge and understanding, Jones's revealing interpretation was written in gratitude to Gandhi, who, although they often disagreed, showed Jones "more of the spirit of Christ than perhaps any other . . . in East or West." "Martin Luther King, Jr., told me he owed a debt to my father for his book on Mahatma Gandhi. He had read many books on Gandhi, read his writings, but it was that particular book of my father's that had triggered his decision to use the method of ... nonviolence in his civil rights movement for his people." --Eunice Jones Mathews "Highly recommended."--Library Journal "To understand the meaning of this great leader ... read this book of interpretation."--Kirkus "Jones ... possesses a great gift of sympathetically interpreting the East to the West."--[London] Times Literary Supplement
Gandhi
by Kazuki EbineThe life of a true twentieth-century hero told in a vibrant graphic novel format. Through his quietly powerful leadership and influential use of nonviolent resistance in India's struggle against the British Raj, Mahatma Gandhi became one of the most revered figures of the modern era. While history has recorded Gandhi's words and deeds, the man himself has been eclipsed by maxims of virtuosity that seem to have little resonance in our everyday lives. In Gandhi, the third volume in our exciting new manga biography series, created in conjunction with Emotional Content, Kazuki Ebine combines a gripping narrative with stunning illustrations to share Gandhi's inspiring and deeply human story with a whole new generation of readers. Developed in conjunction with Emotional Content. .
Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World, 1914-1948
by Ramachandra GuhaAn epic and revelatory biography of one of the most abidingly influential--and controversial--men in modern history.Opening with Gandhi's triumphant return to India in 1915 after decades abroad, and ending with his tragic assassination in 1949, Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World is a remarkable, moving portrait that provides a crucial re-evaluation of India's iconic leader for a new generation. <p><p> Drawing on a wealth of newly uncovered materials unavailable to previous biographers, acclaimed historian and author Ramachandra Guha brings the past to life with extraordinary grace and clarity. Deploying his gifts as a storyteller and scholar, Guha presents Gandhi as both a fascinating human being--a man of fierce hope, eccentric personal beliefs, and sometimes dark and alarming contradictions--as well as a dynamic political force and global icon. <p> Sharp, insightful, balanced, and impeccably researched, this free-standing sequel to Guha's magisterial biography Gandhi Before India is an indispensable resource for a contemporary understanding of Gandhi's ever-evolving legacy.
Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World, 1914-1948
by Ramachandra GuhaThe second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed, Gandhi Before India: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential--and controversial--men in world history. <p><p> This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades: to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India's Hindu and Muslim populations, to end the pernicious Hindu practice of untouchability, and to develop India's economic and moral self-reliance. We see how in each of these campaigns, Gandhi adapted methods of nonviolence--strikes, marches, fasts--that successfully challenged British authority, religious orthodoxy, social customs, and would influence non-violent, revolutionary movements throughout the world. <p> In reconstructing Gandhi's life and work, Ramachandra Guha has drawn on sixty different archival collections, the most significant among them, a previously unavailable collection of papers belonging to Gandhi himself. <p> Using this wealth of material, Guha creates a portrait of Gandhi and of those closest to him--family, friends, political and social leaders--that illuminates the complexity inside his thinking, his motives, his actions and their outcomes as he engaged with every important aspect of social and public life in the India of his time.