Gandhi (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jeanette Eaton
- First Published: 1950
- Time of Work: 1887–1947
- Setting: India, England, and South Africa
- Principal Characters: Mohandas K. Gandhi, Kasturbai Gandhi, Gopal Gokhale, Charles F. Andrews, Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Civil rights, Politics, Colonialism, Leadership, Spiritual life or spirituality, India or East Indian people, South Africa or South Africans, Nonviolence, Hindus or Hinduism, Biography
- Locales: England, South Africa, India
Form and Content
In Gandhi: Fighter Without a Sword, Jeanette Eaton chronicles the many-faceted influences in the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi that caused him to mature into a spiritual, educational, and political leader. Gandhi is in narrative form and is interspersed with black-and-white sketches by Ralph Ray. Each chapter provides an understanding of one particular section or event in Gandhi’s life, beginning with his teenage years. The book examines the early cultural influences in India on Gandhi as he began to explore who he was and why the British dominated...
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