Mahatma Gandhi

Standard Name: Gandhi, Mahatma
Used Form: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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Travel Sarojini Naidu
From about 1912, when she threw herself into politics almost full-time, SN spent most of her time away from her family. Her political position took her as a delegate on a number of national and...
Travel Eva Mary Bell
When EMB first travelled to India, presumably with her husband, it was to live in Ferozepore or Firozpur in the Punjab (now close to the border with Pakistan). She was in Ludhiana, Punjab, for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosita Forbes
This book concentrates on those of the princely states which RF had visited (the majority) and their often highly characterful as well as flamboyantly wealthy rulers. Relying mostly on her own experience, with some digressions...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Edith Lyttelton
EL 's account of India is the shortest, but the most transparent in the imperial slant to its attitudes. As she toured New Delhi, she pondered ignorantly [her word] on the whole situation, concluding...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ethel Mannin
This book also significantly revises EM 's earlier opinion on the Spanish Civil War, saying that had Republican Spain shown no resistance, this horror would have been spared.
Stee, Loretta. “Gandhian Non-Violence in Works of Ethel Mannin and Virginia Woolf”. Literature of Region and Nation: Proceedings of the 6th International Literature of Region and Nation Conference, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, edited by Winnifred M. Bogaards, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, pp. 163-80.
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She argues passionately for a Gandhi
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Annie Besant
Among its favourite topics were Gandhi and pacifism.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jan Morris
This time the story begins with Kitchener 's re-taking of Khartoum, and ends with the death in 1965 of Winston Churchill , presented as the last imperialist. In it JM appeals to her own...
Textual Production Vera Brittain
She had made good use of her opportunities for observation when, two years earlier, she travelled to the Gandhi Memorial Conference or World Pacifist Meeting .
British Book News. British Council.
(1952): 112
Textual Production Sylvia Pankhurst
SP published in Bombay the over-600-page work India and the Earthly Paradise, aligning herself with Ghandi 's call for rural communalism.
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
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Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan.
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Textual Production Eva Mary Bell
Giving her name on the title-page as John Travers (Mrs. G. H. Bell), EMB published another Indian novel, A Servant When He Reigneth, dedicated to Sir Michael and Lady O'Dwyer , friends of...
Textual Features Kamila Shamsie
Vivian's later career takes her to Peshawar, where political tensions are running high, and where Qayuum Gul's young brother, Najeeb, has confronted a racial barrier to learning archaeology rather as she had confronted a...
Textual Features Flora Annie Steel
The title refers to the custom of marking thresholds with the imprint of a bloody hand, to invoke the goddess Kali as a protection against lesser malicious spirits. The novel opens with a strong scene...
Textual Features Helen Waddell
She also notes that Jacques wrote in an effort to clear his mind and heart, to understand if he could the causes of his country's capitulation.
Robin, Guy. A French Soldier Speaks. Translator Waddell, Helen, Constable.
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The writing may be politically muddled (the...
Reception Annie Besant
The play (which went on to tour Britain for six weeks) portrayed Besant as a charismatic though not infallible idealist. It was advertised with a photo showing her with Gandhi .
politics Alice Walker
It is hard to separate the topic of AW 's travel from that of her activism, since most her travelling is undertaken to further specific causes. In 2003 she was arrested for protesting against the...

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2 October 1869: Indian spiritual and Nationalist leader Mahatma...

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2 October 1869

Indian spiritual and Nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi was born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Porbandar, India.

30 June 1914: Jan Smuts and Mohandas Gandhi agreed by letter...

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30 June 1914

Jan Smuts and Mohandas Gandhi agreed by letter that South African law regarding Asiatics would be justly enforced.

30 March 1919: Mohandas Gandhi proclaimed a hartal (work...

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30 March 1919

Mohandas Gandhi proclaimed a hartal (work stoppage) as part of satyagraha (passive resistance) against the Rowlatt Acts, which gave the Indian Government sweeping Emergency Powers, aimed especially against sedition.

September 1920: The civil disobedience campaign against British...

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September 1920

The civil disobedience campaign against British rule in India began; it involved an immense non-cooperation movement, including a boycott of foreign cloth and British imports.

10 March 1922: Gandhi was arrested and charged with sedition...

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10 March 1922

Gandhi was arrested and charged with sedition in Amhedabad, India, shortly after calling off his campaigns of civil disobedience and boycotts.

12 March 1930: Gandhi began his campaign of civil disobedience...

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12 March 1930

Gandhi began his campaign of civil disobedience (peaceful resistance to British rule in India) with the 240-mile Salt March, heading for the sea coast of Gujarat.

15 February 1942: Singapore, held by Britain, fell to Japanese...

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15 February 1942

Singapore, held by Britain, fell to Japanese forces.

1 April 1947: Mahatma Gandhi suggested, remarkably for...

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1 April 1947

Mahatma Gandhi suggested, remarkably for a devout Hindu , that the first Prime Minister of an independent (and united) India should be the MuslimMuhammad Ali Jinnah (who after Partition became first premier of Pakistan).

30 January 1948: Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated in Delhi...

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30 January 1948

Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated in Delhi by a Hindu who claimed to be acting in retribution for Gandhi's part in the partition of India.

1953: The United Nations General Assembly appointed...

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1953

The United Nations General Assembly appointed its first female president, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India.

31 October 1984: Indira Gandhi, who had been Prime Minister...

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31 October 1984

Indira Gandhi , who had been Prime Minister of India with only one short break since 1967, was assassinated, shot down in her garden by two of her body-guards who were Sikhs, in retaliation for...

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