Traveling India In The Age Of Gandhi

Author : Jeffrey N. Dupée
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761839491
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi written by Jeffrey N. Dupée and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2008 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi is a study of "armchair" travel writers who journeyed to India during what has often been termed the "Age of Gandhi," placed between 1914-1948. Most of the travel writers surveyed understood this era to be a unique time in world history--in India and elsewhere on the globe. The lingering trauma of World War I, the rise of radical state ideologies in Russia, Italy, Japan, and Germany, world-wide depression in the 1930s along with a host of other unsettling political, cultural, and technological realities revealed a world of bewildering complexity and uncertainty. For many of the travel writers surveyed in this work, India was the main drama in a shifting global landscape. Moreover, many viewed it as the ultimate travel experience, a journey that tested one's capacity to fully engage the earth's most compelling forms of human diversity and suffering. Although a few notable figures are included, most of the authors in the study constitute a breed of largely forgotten travel writers. This work is an attempt to extract the core of their observations, impressions, and conclusions concerning what they saw and experienced, particularly concerning Indian aspirations for independence and India as the world's most exotic human landscape.

Author : Jeffrey N. Dupée
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 146169311X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi written by Jeffrey N. Dupée and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi is a study of "armchair" travel writers who journeyed to India during what has often been termed the "Age of Gandhi," placed between 1914–1948. Most of the travel writers surveyed understood this era to be a unique time in world history—in India and elsewhere on the globe. The lingering trauma of World War I, the rise of radical state ideologies in Russia, Italy, Japan, and Germany, world-wide depression in the 1930s along with a host of other unsettling political, cultural, and technological realities revealed a world of bewildering complexity and uncertainty. For many of the travel writers surveyed in this work, India was the main drama in a shifting global landscape. Moreover, many viewed it as the ultimate travel experience, a journey that tested one's capacity to fully engage the earth's most compelling forms of human diversity and suffering. Although a few notable figures are included, most of the authors in the study constitute a breed of largely forgotten travel writers. This work is an attempt to extract the core of their observations, impressions, and conclusions concerning what they saw and experienced, particularly concerning Indian aspirations for independence and India as the world's most exotic human landscape.

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Author : Dr. Shiv Sharma
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9788128400674
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India - A Travel Guide written by Dr. Shiv Sharma and published by Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sharmishtha Roy Chowdhury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429798741
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First World War, Anticolonialism and Imperial Authority in British India, 1914-1924 written by Sharmishtha Roy Chowdhury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1914, when the Great War began, and 1924, when the Ottoman Caliphate ended, British and Indian officials and activists reformulated political ideas in the context of total war in the Middle East, Gandhian mass mobilisation, and the 1919 Amritsar massacre. Using discussions on travel, spatiality, and landscape as an entry point, The First World War, Anticolonialism and Imperial Authority in British India, 1914–1924 discusses the complex politics of late colonial India and the waning of imperial enthusiasm. This book presents a multifaceted picture of Indian politics at a time when total war and resurgent anticolonial activism were reshaping assumptions about state power, culture, and resistance.

Author : Joseph Lelyveld
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307269582
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Soul written by Joseph Lelyveld and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Gandhi that focuses on the sense of mission, social values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance that shaped him during his two decades in South Africa.

Author : Insight Guides
Publisher : Apa Publications (UK) Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786715953
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insight Guides India (Travel Guide eBook) written by Insight Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is like nowhere else on earth - thrilling, frustrating and incredibly diverse. Be inspired to visit by the new edition of Insight Guide India, a comprehensive full-colour guide to this fascinating country. Inside Insight Guide India: A thoroughly updated new edition by our expert authors. Stunning photography brings this most colourful of countries and its people to life. Highlights of the country's top attractions, including the iconic monument of the Taj Mahal, the desert citadel of Jaisalmer and evocative ruins at Hampi. Descriptive region-by-region accounts cover the whole country from the bright lights of Delhi and Mumbai to the green backwaters of Kerala and the cool heights of the Himalayas. Detailed, high-quality maps throughout will help you get around and travel tips give you all the essential information for planning a memorable trip. About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure. 'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

Author : Ejaz Khadija
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612285325
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Visit India written by Ejaz Khadija and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Visit India takes middle school students on a wonderful journey to the Asian country of India. The book is written in a lively and interesting style that makes India come alive. The title contains India's history, geography, conflicts, culture, religions, politics, economy, and most importantly contemporary life in the country today. The country's vital statistics, timeline, place in the world, and a native recipe and craft are included. The book has been developed to address many of the Common Core specific goals, higher level thinking skills, and progressive learning strategies from informational texts for middle grade and junior high level students.

Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 038553230X
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gandhi Before India written by Ramachandra Guha and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : David Cortright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351566059
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gandhi and Beyond written by David Cortright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Cortright is a life-long activist and respected scholar. In Gandhi and Beyond, he convincingly shows the power of nonviolence as a philosophy of life, not just a method of social action. His practical analysis of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez, and others brings new insights and inspiration to those of us attempting to live that philosophy, and to those, especially a new generation, who are seeking a better way to respond to their world. I commend this book to all who are seeking an alternative to violence." Jim Wallis, author of God's Politics and editor of Sojourners Is there room for nonviolence in an age of terrorism? Drawing on the legend and lessons of Gandhi, Cortright traces the history of nonviolent social activism through the early twentieth century to the civil rights movement, the Vietnam era, and up to the present war in Iraq. Gandhi and Beyond offers a critical evaluation and refinement of Gandhi's message, laying the foundation for a renewed and deepened dedication to nonviolence as the universal path to social progress and antidote to terrorism.