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_d25949
020 _a9780199470709
082 _a954.035092
_bTHA-G
100 _aThakkar,Usha & Mehta,Sandhya
245 _aGandhi in Bombay
_b: towards swaraj
260 _bOxford University Press
_c2017
_aNew Delhi
300 _axxii, 332p
504 _ainclude Index
520 _aWhen Gandhi landed on the bustling Bombay docks on a cold winter morning in 1915, little did he know that his journey back from South Africa would mark a turning point in history. Bombay, the nerve centre of Gandhi's many political activities, earned an enviable place in India's freedom struggle under his leadership. In 1919, Gandhi initiated his first nationwide protest, the satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act, in this city, which propelled him to the position of a pre-eminent political leader. It was here that the landmark Non-Cooperation Movement of 1920 was launched, and in 1942, the city responded with unprecedented verve to his clarion call asking the British to quit India. Gandhi was full of dogged determination and Bombay was brimming with tremendous energy-this amalgam resulted in a powerful synergy that changed the course of the nation. Gandhi in Bombay is interspersed with the Mahatma's letters, speeches, published writings, and 50 rare photographs depicting important events in Bombay. Together they project a scintillating vision of the city in the throes of the independence movement
650 _aGandhi, Mahatma 1869-1948
_zIndia
650 _aSocial movement
_vQuit India Movement
_vNon-Cooperation Movement
_zIndia
942 _2ddc
_cSC