Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Tridip Suhrud
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780192858382
- eISBN:
- 9780191949180
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780192858382.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
Home to Home covers the period of 1915-1919 and the Gandhi family’s return to India. When Gandhi and Kasturba return, after a prolonged stay of nearly six months in war-engulfed England, where he ...
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Home to Home covers the period of 1915-1919 and the Gandhi family’s return to India. When Gandhi and Kasturba return, after a prolonged stay of nearly six months in war-engulfed England, where he offers, with his Boer and Zulu experience behind him, but without much success, to help with an ambulance corps, they learn and begin interaction with Tagore’s ‘Phoenix boys’ in Santiniketan, Bengal. This period covers Gandhi’s first satyagraha in Champaran, Bihar along with Devadas, the role of Mahadev Desai, and Devadas’s move to Madras (under the mentorship of G A Natesan). This segment includes correspondence between Gandhi and Tagore as well as his letters to Devadas written from different parts of the world.Less
Home to Home covers the period of 1915-1919 and the Gandhi family’s return to India. When Gandhi and Kasturba return, after a prolonged stay of nearly six months in war-engulfed England, where he offers, with his Boer and Zulu experience behind him, but without much success, to help with an ambulance corps, they learn and begin interaction with Tagore’s ‘Phoenix boys’ in Santiniketan, Bengal. This period covers Gandhi’s first satyagraha in Champaran, Bihar along with Devadas, the role of Mahadev Desai, and Devadas’s move to Madras (under the mentorship of G A Natesan). This segment includes correspondence between Gandhi and Tagore as well as his letters to Devadas written from different parts of the world.
David Hardiman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- February 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190920678
- eISBN:
- 9780190943233
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190920678.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
The third chapter shows how the methods that Gandhi developed in South Africa were applied in practice in three movements in rural India that occurred in the second decade of the twentieth century. ...
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The third chapter shows how the methods that Gandhi developed in South Africa were applied in practice in three movements in rural India that occurred in the second decade of the twentieth century. The chapter starts with a struggle in Bijoliya in princely India that had nothing to do with Gandhi initially. This brings out how such resistance was already being developed in popular local campaigns, showing how in time they linked up with Gandhi and began to apply a more strict and principled form of nonviolence. The other two struggles – in Champaran and Kheda – were led directly by Gandhi. Although the author has written already on the Kheda Satyagraha of 1918 in his1981 book Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat, he treats the topic in a new way here, focusing on its importance in the history of nonviolent struggle.Less
The third chapter shows how the methods that Gandhi developed in South Africa were applied in practice in three movements in rural India that occurred in the second decade of the twentieth century. The chapter starts with a struggle in Bijoliya in princely India that had nothing to do with Gandhi initially. This brings out how such resistance was already being developed in popular local campaigns, showing how in time they linked up with Gandhi and began to apply a more strict and principled form of nonviolence. The other two struggles – in Champaran and Kheda – were led directly by Gandhi. Although the author has written already on the Kheda Satyagraha of 1918 in his1981 book Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat, he treats the topic in a new way here, focusing on its importance in the history of nonviolent struggle.
