Author: Louis Creswicke
Publisher:
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Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
South Africa and the Transvaal War
Author: Louis Creswicke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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The People of Welgeval
Author: Botlhale Tema
Publisher: Struik Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"The People of Welgeval is a beautifully written epic about life, death, suffering and survival." -- The Star Tonight (South Africa)
Publisher: Struik Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"The People of Welgeval is a beautifully written epic about life, death, suffering and survival." -- The Star Tonight (South Africa)
Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Handbook of Commercial Treaties, &c., Between Great Britain and Foreign Powers
Author: Great Britain
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
The Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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The Girmitiya Saga
Author: Giriraj Kishore
Publisher: Niyogi Books
ISBN: 8189738453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
This book retraces the socio-political background of 19th and 20th-century South Africa, highlighting the importance of Mohandas Gandhi’s actions in South Africa. On the longlist of the Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2010.
Publisher: Niyogi Books
ISBN: 8189738453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
This book retraces the socio-political background of 19th and 20th-century South Africa, highlighting the importance of Mohandas Gandhi’s actions in South Africa. On the longlist of the Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2010.
The Spectator
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law
Author:
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Category : Comparative law
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Includes annual "Review of legislation" covering the years 1859-1949.
Publisher:
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Category : Comparative law
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Includes annual "Review of legislation" covering the years 1859-1949.
Gandhi Before India
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 038553230X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in modern history. Ramachandra Guha—hailed by Time as “Indian democracy’s preeminent chronicler”—takes us from Gandhi’s birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa. Guha has uncovered myriad previously untapped documents, including private papers of Gandhi’s contemporaries and co-workers; contemporary newspapers and court documents; the writings of Gandhi’s children; and secret files kept by British Empire functionaries. Using this wealth of material in an exuberant, brilliantly nuanced and detailed narrative, Guha describes the social, political and personal worlds inside of which Gandhi began the journey that would earn him the honorific Mahatma: “Great Soul.” And, more clearly than ever before, he elucidates how Gandhi’s work in South Africa—far from being a mere prelude to his accomplishments in India—was profoundly influential in his evolution as a family man, political thinker, social reformer and, ultimately, beloved leader. In 1893, when Gandhi set sail for South Africa, he was a twenty-three-year-old lawyer who had failed to establish himself in India. In this remarkable biography, the author makes clear the fundamental ways in which Gandhi’s ideas were shaped before his return to India in 1915. It was during his years in England and South Africa, Guha shows us, that Gandhi came to understand the nature of imperialism and racism; and in South Africa that he forged the philosophy and techniques that would undermine and eventually overthrow the British Raj. Gandhi Before India gives us equally vivid portraits of the man and the world he lived in: a world of sharp contrasts among the coastal culture of his birthplace, High Victorian London, and colonial South Africa. It explores in abundant detail Gandhi’s experiments with dissident cults such as the Tolstoyans; his friendships with radical Jews, heterodox Christians and devout Muslims; his enmities and rivalries; and his often overlooked failures as a husband and father. It tells the dramatic, profoundly moving story of how Gandhi inspired the devotion of thousands of followers in South Africa as he mobilized a cross-class and inter-religious coalition, pledged to non-violence in their battle against a brutally racist regime. Researched with unequaled depth and breadth, and written with extraordinary grace and clarity, Gandhi Before India is, on every level, fully commensurate with its subject. It will radically alter our understanding and appreciation of twentieth-century India’s greatest man.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 038553230X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in modern history. Ramachandra Guha—hailed by Time as “Indian democracy’s preeminent chronicler”—takes us from Gandhi’s birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa. Guha has uncovered myriad previously untapped documents, including private papers of Gandhi’s contemporaries and co-workers; contemporary newspapers and court documents; the writings of Gandhi’s children; and secret files kept by British Empire functionaries. Using this wealth of material in an exuberant, brilliantly nuanced and detailed narrative, Guha describes the social, political and personal worlds inside of which Gandhi began the journey that would earn him the honorific Mahatma: “Great Soul.” And, more clearly than ever before, he elucidates how Gandhi’s work in South Africa—far from being a mere prelude to his accomplishments in India—was profoundly influential in his evolution as a family man, political thinker, social reformer and, ultimately, beloved leader. In 1893, when Gandhi set sail for South Africa, he was a twenty-three-year-old lawyer who had failed to establish himself in India. In this remarkable biography, the author makes clear the fundamental ways in which Gandhi’s ideas were shaped before his return to India in 1915. It was during his years in England and South Africa, Guha shows us, that Gandhi came to understand the nature of imperialism and racism; and in South Africa that he forged the philosophy and techniques that would undermine and eventually overthrow the British Raj. Gandhi Before India gives us equally vivid portraits of the man and the world he lived in: a world of sharp contrasts among the coastal culture of his birthplace, High Victorian London, and colonial South Africa. It explores in abundant detail Gandhi’s experiments with dissident cults such as the Tolstoyans; his friendships with radical Jews, heterodox Christians and devout Muslims; his enmities and rivalries; and his often overlooked failures as a husband and father. It tells the dramatic, profoundly moving story of how Gandhi inspired the devotion of thousands of followers in South Africa as he mobilized a cross-class and inter-religious coalition, pledged to non-violence in their battle against a brutally racist regime. Researched with unequaled depth and breadth, and written with extraordinary grace and clarity, Gandhi Before India is, on every level, fully commensurate with its subject. It will radically alter our understanding and appreciation of twentieth-century India’s greatest man.