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India India Politics and government 1919-1947 Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Juvenile literature Nationalists Nationalists India Biography Nationalists India Biography Juvenile literature Statesmen Statesmen India Biography Statesmen India Biography Juvenile literatureSummary: Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GANSummary: Mahatma Gandhi led the Indian independence movement, freeing his nation from British rule. This episode of A&E Classroom examines this political and spiritual leader who practiced civil disobedience and passive resistance. Gandhi remains today a symbol of courage and non-violent triumph.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Gandhi
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.035 GANGandhi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.035 GANSummary: This compelling program traces the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi from London, where he first studied law; to South Africa, where he established his first ashram; to India, where he worked tirelessly for independence. More than a biography, this documentary seeks to understand the essence of Mahatma Gandhi and his philosophy, which guided India in its struggle for independence and continues to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Gandhi, Arun.
Summary: "At Grandfather Gandhi’s service village, each day is filled, from sunrise to sunset, with work that is done for the good of all. The villagers vow to live simply and non-violently. Arun Gandhi tries very hard to follow these vows, but he struggles with one of the most important rules: not to waste." --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GANSoundar, Chitra
Summary: "Born in a small town in India, growing up to study law, he became a powerful voice for change and is now known all over the world as a symbol of perseverance and peace."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People GandhiGandhi
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANLelyveld, Joseph.
Summary: In this ambitious, original study, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtrodden--against Gandhi's own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANDHI, MAHATMA LELGandhi, Rajmohan.
Summary: This monumental biography of one of the most intriguing figures of the twentieth century, written by his grandson, is the first to give a complete and balanced account of Mahatma Gandhi's remarkable life, the development of his beliefs and his political campaigns, and his complex relations with his family. Written with unprecedented insight and access to family archives, it reveals a life of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Haus 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954 GANBirch, Beverley.
Summary: Follows the life of the statesman who was a key figure in India's fight for independence from Great Britain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. Stevens Children's Books 1990
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB GANDHI BIRKuhn, Betsy.
Summary: This book follows Mohandas Gandhi's development of his nonviolent protest theories from his days as a young lawyer in South Africa to his later leadership in India. In a defining civil rights gesture Gandhi defied Great Britain's salt monopoly in India when he led a march to a beach and picked up a handful of salt.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 954.035 KUHSummary: Immerse your students in India's current political landscape and the influence of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. Focusing on the accomplishments of Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Nehru's descendants-including the improbable rise of Sonia Gandhi in 2004-this program uses archival images, dramatic press footage, and interviews from a broad cross-section of Indian society to vividly depict the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Gandhi, Vikram
Summary: In order to prove that self proclaimed Indian gurus are no more holy than anyone else, New Jersey filmmaker Vikram Gandhi transforms himself into guru Sir Kumaré and develops a following.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KUMGuha, Ramachandra
Summary: This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades: to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India's Hindu and Muslim populations, to end the pernicious Hindu practice of untouchability, and to develop India's economic and moral self-reliance. We see how in each of these...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANDHI, MAHATMA GUHFankhouser, Kris
Summary: "A biography on the Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GANGandhi Bhattacharjee, Tara.
Summary: An inspirational and vivid behind-the-scenes biography of the Gandhi family and the tumult of India's independence by Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi. The granddaughter of both Gandhiji and Rajaji, Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee's childhood was peopled by freedom fighters and leaders who laid the foundation for an independent India.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANDHI, TARA BHAGandhi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.035 GANMeltzer, Brad
Summary: Highlights the life and career of the Indian statesman and nationalist, from his youth to his civil disobedience to his assassination.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I am Gandhi1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set I Am 921 Gandhi 2017
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Summary: Illustrated biography of Mahatma Gandhi, who vowed to instigate social and political change through nonviolent means and succeeded in changing India's prejudicial caste system and winning India's independence from Great Britain
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret McElderry Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GANMcGinty, Alice B.
Summary: Documents the 1930 Satyagraha protest movement, describing how Gandhi led a twenty-four-day march to the sea to demonstrate against Great Britain's salt tax while offering insight into his beliefs about non-violent civil disobedience.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Children's Pub. 2013