Gandhi: Profiles in Power

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of plates
List of maps
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The Idea of Gandhi
CHAPTER 2 A Diwan's Son
	The India of the Princes
	Caste and the Banias
	Gandhi and his Family
	Religious Life in Kathiawar
	Gandhi in London
CHAPTER 3 South Africa and Self-Rule
	Indians in South Africa
	A Lawyer in Natal
	‘Truth-Force’
	The Mantle of Mahatma
	‘Civilisation’ and ‘Slavery’
CHAPTER 4 Peasant Power
	Village India
	The Raj and the Congress
	Gandhi in Champaran
	The Kheda Satyagraha
	The Ahmedabad Strike of 1918
	A Peasant Congress?
CHAPTER 5 Power to the Nation
	Gandhi and the First World War
	The Rowlatt Satyagraha
	Congress Reorganisation
	Non-Cooperation and Civil Disobedience
	Khadi and the Constructive Programme
	Trial and Imprisonment
CHAPTER 6 ‘Half-Naked Fakir’
	The Swarajists and the Bardoli Satyagraha
	‘Simon Go Back’
	The Salt Satyagraha
	Civil Disobedience
	The Gandhi-Irwin Pact
	London and the Round Table Conference
CHAPTER 7 The Lone Satyagrahi: Gandhi, Religion and Society
	Gandhi’s Religion
	Caste and Untouchability
	The ‘Epic Fast’ and Harijan Campaign
	Gandhi Adrift
	Women and Gendered Politics
CHAPTER 8 Gandhi in Old Age: Triumph or Nemesis?
	Gandhi, Nehru and Bose
	The Office Question
	‘Quit India’
	One Nation – or Two?
	Independence and Partition
	The Assassination
Conclusion
Glossary
Guide to Further Reading
Chronology
Maps
Index