Satyagraha in South Africa

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi led the 32-year struggle for Indian Independence against British rule employing the use nonviolent civil disobedience, inspiring movements of civil rights and freedom throughout the world. Gandhi lived a modest lifestyle and was held as a political prisoner for many years throughout the course of the movement. In 1948, only two years after the British reluctantly granted independence to the people of the Indian subcontinent, Gandhi was assassinated on his way to a prayer meeting in the Birla House garden. His death was mourned nationwide; over two million people joined the five-mile long funeral procession in his honor. The Satyagraha struggle of the Indians in South Africa lasted eight years. The term Satyagraha was invented and employed in connection therewith. Octavo, original cloth in original dust-jacket. Very good in a very good dust jacket the is darkened and chipped on top of the spine, protected in Brodart. Minor ding to the textblock affecting bottom edge of first few pages. First English language edition of Gandhi's classic work. Translated by Valji Govindji Desai. Uncommon in this condition. N° de ref. del artículo 275053

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