Duncan, R.. - Selected writings of Mahatma Gandhi (1951)

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Conditie: Zo goed als nieuw

Beschrijving

London, Faber & Faber, 1951, 2d. Edition

Hardcover, cloth, with dustjacket
5.7 x 9 tall
253 Pages

GOOD
Some scribling in pencil on the last free endpaper

Contents Introduction [by R.D.] 11-31

Part I[to] part IX bibliography 249-250
Index 251-251

Part one: Anasakti yoga [...]
From Gandhis commentary on the Bhagavad Gita

Part two: the Gita and Satyagraha [non-violence]
A letter from Tolstoy to Gandhi

Part three: the Practice of Satyagraha or civil disobedience [....] The growth of congress [....] Fasting as a method of passive resistance

Part four: a Reply to Tagore

Part five: Report of the trial of Mahatma Gandhi [1922; over articles published in Young Indian 1921 and 1922]

Part six: Brahmacharya: the virtue of chastity [....] The untouchables? Hinduism

Part seven: Extracts from the Delhi Diary [10 september 1947 to 26 january 1948; Gandhi was assassinated on 30 january 1948, and not the 28th, as R.D. implies on p. 30]

Part eight: Correspondence with lord Linlithgow[14 august 1942 to 7 october 1943]

Part nine: Aphorisms the frontispiece is a photograph of Gandhi, for which acknowledgement is given to the high commissioner for India (7).
Underneath are lines : from Mahatma Gandhi´s inscription on his portrait which he gave to the editor: From the unreal, lead me to reality, from darkness lead me to light, from death lead me to deathlessness, lord of terrors, protect me ever with thy form benign Shanti! Shanti! Shanti!

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