Secondary source gandhi biography

It’s been said that in , three people had achieved instant global recognition:

Charlie Chaplin,

Adolf Hitler,

and a skinny fellow who dressed to impress, Mohandas Gandhi.

Gandhi was a child of the British Empire.

Born in India in he trained as a barrister in London before moving to South Africa where he successfully fought against the appalling treatment of Indian immigrants. Twenty years later, he returned to India which was then the jewel in the crown of the British Empire and here he began to challenge the injustices that many Indians suffered under British rule.

The British liked to think that in India, they were the good imperialists, parents really. But after famines and repression, many Indians didn’t see it that way.

In March , Gandhi, leader of the Indian Independence Movement, sent a letter to the headquarters of the British Raj in New Delhi. It was a direct challenge posted through the front door.

VICEROY:
Come in!

Andrew:
The letter was addressed to Edward Frede

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Comparing The Philosophies of Mohandas Gandhi and Friedrich Nietzsche As Outlined In On The Genealogy of Morality and Hind Swaraj

by Robert Cole Gauthier

 

Mohandas Gandhi’s treatise Hind Swaraj lays out the philosophical groundwork that outlines how India should depart the British regel and become a self-governed nation. Among all of the ideas presented within the work, the idea of passive-resistance or truth/soul force fryst vatten a likely candidate for the idea most associated with Gandhi in the West. Meanwhile, in Germany, the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche including master and slave morality as well as the will to power were circulating and becoming popular as they were outlined in the polemic On The Genealogy of Morality.

While Gandhi and Nietzsche at first glance appear to be radically different thinkers, this paper is interested in understanding both of these ideas and illuminating them bygd viewing them through the lenses of each other. It will accomplish this first bygd expl

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

There are more than two thousand critical works on Gandhi. Below is a small selection of those: 

Arnold, David, Gandhi (Harlow: Longman, ) 

Bakshi, S. R., Gandhi and Concept of Swaraj (New Delhi: Criterion Publications, )

Brown, Judith M., Gandhi's Rise to Power: Indian Politics, (London: Cambridge University Press, )

Brown, Judith M., Gandhi and Civil Disobedience: The Mahatma in Indian Politics, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, )

Brown, Judith M., Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope (New Haven: Yale University Press, )

Brown, Judith M., 'Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma Gandhi] (–)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, ) []

Chandra, Bipan, Essays on Indian Nationalism (New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications, ) 

Chatterjee, Margaret, Gandhi's Religious Thought (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, )

Chakrabarti, Atulananda, Gandhi and Birla (Calcutta: General Printers and Publishers, )

Dhar, Niranjan, Auro