Gandhi (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Judith M. Brown
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Historical biography
- Time of Work: 1869-1948
- Setting: India and South Africa
- Principal Characters: Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Letters, Biography
- Subjects: History, Class conflict, Politics, Social issues, Religion, Violence, Nationalism, Working class, India or East Indian people, Trains, South Africa or South Africans, Hindus or Hinduism, Massacres, Sacrifice
- Locales: South Africa, India
Most people in Europe and the United States will have their image and understanding of Gandhi from Sir Richard Attenborough’s 1982 film. The indelible impression left by such scenes as Gandhi’s expulsion from a train in South Africa, the Dandi salt march, the Amritsar massacre, and the communal violence that erupted at the partition of India and Pakistan provoking Gandhi’s final fasts—all these powerful visual images of epic moments in the history of the Indian independence struggle contribute to the picture of a man swept up in epochal events and trying to control them by sheer...
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