02696nam a22002657a 4500 20230717114401.0 230717b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789350290583 AL English 23 954.0350 LELG Joseph Lelyveld 127338 Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi And His Struggle With India New Delhi HarperCollins Publishers India 2011 xv,425 p. HB 22x14 cm. A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, and rural poor. Pulitzer Prize–winner Joseph Lelyveld shows in vivid, unmatched detail how Gandhi’s sense of mission, social values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance were shaped on another subcontinent—during two decades in South Africa—and then tested by an India that quickly learned to revere him as a Mahatma, or “Great Soul,” while following him only a small part of the way to the social transformation he envisioned. The man himself emerges as one of history’s most remarkable self-creations, a prosperous lawyer who became an ascetic in a loincloth wholly dedicated to political and social action. Lelyveld leads us step-by-step through the heroic—and tragic—last months of this selfless leader’s long campaign when his nonviolent efforts culminated in the partition of India, the creation of Pakistan, and a bloodbath of ethnic cleansing that ended only with his own assassination. India and its politicians were ready to place Gandhi on a pedestal as “Father of the Nation” but were less inclined to embrace his teachings. Muslim support, crucial in his rise to leadership, soon waned, and the oppressed untouchables—for whom Gandhi spoke to Hindus as a whole—produced their own leaders. Here is a vital, brilliant reconsideration of Gandhi’s extraordinary struggles on two continents, of his fierce but, finally, unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy, which more than six decades after his death still ensures his place as India’s social conscience—and not just India’s. India 127339 Nationalists 127340 Statesmen 127341 Politics and government 127342 South Africa 127343 Mahatma Gandhi 127344 LELYVELD (Joseph) 127345 ddc DB 227921 227921 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2023-06-28 0 954.0350 LELG D06041 2023-07-17 00:00:00 2023-07-17 DB Donated by V.T. Rajshekar