The force born of truth : Mohandas Gandhi and the Salt March, India, 1930
2011
Book
This book follows Mohandas Gandhi's development of his nonviolent protest theories from his days as a young lawyer in South Africa to his later leadership in India. In a defining civil rights gesture Gandhi defied Great Britain's salt monopoly in India when he led a march to a beach and picked up a handful of salt.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780822589686
- 0822589680
Description: 160 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, photographs ; 23 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
- Young Gandhi
- Gandhi in South Africa
- Gandhi returns to India
- Setting the stage
- The Salt March
- Gandhi breaks the salt laws
- The end of the Raj
- "A message for the whole world."
LCCN: 2009049127
Control Number: 870784
Publisher: Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, [2011]Series:
Subjects:
- Civil rights movements -- India -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 -- Juvenile literature.
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 -- Political and social views -- Juvenile literature.
- India -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements -- Juvenile literature.
- India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947 -- Juvenile literature.
- Nationalists -- India -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- Nonviolence -- India -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
- Protest movements -- India -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
- Salt -- Political aspects -- India -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
- Statesmen -- India -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Genre: Biographies.