Gandhi, M.K. - My Early Life 1869 -1914 (1950)

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Conditie: Zo goed als nieuw

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Arranged and edited by Mahadeo (must be: Mahadev) Desai

London, Geoffrey Cumberlege , Oxford University Press, 1950

Paperback
4.9 x 7.3 tall
115 Pages

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This illustrated edition of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's My Early Life, specially designed for children and young adults, bears testimony to the classic that continues to sell as a school edition even today. Complemented by contextual notes and including photos, the book covers the crucial years 1869-1914: From childhood days at home, school life, and teenage desires and confessions to the trip to England and struggles as an attorney, and finally his South African years. This is the story of the flesh-and-blood Mohandas, who finds himself, along with many others, in a particular socio-historical context that sets him off on a life-altering path-towards becoming the Mahatma.

Mahadev Desai first met Gandhi in 1915 when he went to meet him to seek his advice on how best to publish his book (a Gujrati translation of John Morley's English book On Compromise). Desai joined Gandhi's Ashram in 1917 and with Durgabehn accompanied him to Champaran that year. He maintained a diary from 13 November 1917 to 14 August 1942, the day before his death, chronicling his life with Gandhi. In 1919 when the colonial government arrested Gandhi in Punjab, he named Desai his heir. Desai was for the first time arrested and sentenced to a year in prison in 1921.

He was Gandhi's personal secretary for 25 years, but as Verrier Elwinwrote of him: "He was much more than that. He was in fact Home and Foreign Secretary combined. He managed everything. He made all the arrangements. He was equally at home in the office, the guest-house and the kitchen. He looked after many guests and must have saved 10 years of Gandhi's life by diverting from him unwanted visitors."
Rajmohan Gandhi writes of Mahadev Desai thus: "Waking up before Gandhi in pre-dawn darkness, and going to sleep long after his Master, Desai lived Gandhi's day thrice over first in an attempt to anticipate it, next in spending it alongside Gandhi, and finally in recording it into his diary.

Many of the earliest books about Gandhi and his associates, particularly those dating back to the 1940s, 1950s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive

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