Gandhi: Profiles in Power

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of plates List of maps Preface CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The Idea of Gandhi CHAPTER 2 A Diwan's Son The India of the Princes Caste and the Banias Gandhi and his Family Religious Life in Kathiawar Gandhi in London CHAPTER 3 South Africa and Self-Rule Indians in South Africa A Lawyer in Natal ‘Truth-Force’ The Mantle of Mahatma ‘Civilisation’ and ‘Slavery’ CHAPTER 4 Peasant Power Village India The Raj and the Congress Gandhi in Champaran The Kheda Satyagraha The Ahmedabad Strike of 1918 A Peasant Congress? CHAPTER 5 Power to the Nation Gandhi and the First World War The Rowlatt Satyagraha Congress Reorganisation Non-Cooperation and Civil Disobedience Khadi and the Constructive Programme Trial and Imprisonment CHAPTER 6 ‘Half-Naked Fakir’ The Swarajists and the Bardoli Satyagraha ‘Simon Go Back’ The Salt Satyagraha Civil Disobedience The Gandhi-Irwin Pact London and the Round Table Conference CHAPTER 7 The Lone Satyagrahi: Gandhi, Religion and Society Gandhi’s Religion Caste and Untouchability The ‘Epic Fast’ and Harijan Campaign Gandhi Adrift Women and Gendered Politics CHAPTER 8 Gandhi in Old Age: Triumph or Nemesis? Gandhi, Nehru and Bose The Office Question ‘Quit India’ One Nation – or Two? Independence and Partition The Assassination Conclusion Glossary Guide to Further Reading Chronology Maps Index