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MAHATMA GANDHI AT WORK

C. F. ANDREWS

Originally published in 1931, this book forms the third volume of the series, following on from Mahatma Gandhi: His Own Story, and relates in his own words Mahatma Gandhi's epic stuggle in the Transvaal to set right the wrongs which had been done to the Indian Community. There he first proved to the world the practical success of his own original method, called Satyagraha, or T...

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ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: INDIA AND THE PACIFIC (1937)

C.F. ANDREWS

First published in 1937, this book examines the changes in working conditions and vast improvements on sugar plantations in 20th century Fiji. By the 1930s, the sugar industry had become economically stronger through the substitution of the small tenant farm for the large plantation. Andrews examines how this led to a moral and social transformation in Fijian society. He also h...

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ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: THE INDIAN EARTHQUAKE (1935)

C.F. ANDREWS

First published in 1935, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake, giving a background to the earthquake zone, describing the event itself and surveying the ensuing devastation. The author also looks at the government’s actions and the response of India’s other states as well as the religious and social dimension to the reaction — exemplifi...

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ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: INDIA AND THE SIMON REPORT (1930)

C.F. ANDREWS

First published in 1930, this book sought to explain to western readers the vital necessity of approaching the ‘Indian problem’ from the emerging national standpoint in India, and of appreciating its ideals. The author relates this necessity directly to the task undertaken by the Simon Commission in 1928 to make a survey of India and the resultant suggestions for constitutional...

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ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: THE TRUE INDIA (1939)

C.F. ANDREWS

First published in 1939, this book sets out to refute some of the ‘unjust charges laid at India’s door’ and correct the ‘false impressions’ that prevailed at the time. The author argues that the distorted view of the social conditions in India in the contemporary press and literature were detrimental to the relationships between East and West. Attempting to give a picture of th...

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ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: THE CHALLENGE OF THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER (1937)

C.F. ANDREWS

First published in 1937, this book grew out of the author’s belief that there needed to be a ‘drastic revision’ of British policy on the North-West Frontier of India (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan) in order to achieve a lasting peace. The author examined the causes of continued hostility and non-military methods that might prevent further outbreaks of war — reducing or rem...

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ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: THE RISE AND GROWTH OF THE CONGRESS IN INDIA (1938)

C.F. ANDREWS / GIRIJA MOOKERJEE

First published in 1938, this book aims to provide a history of the rise and growth of the Indian National Congress for the general reader, covering the period from its foundation in 1885 until the beginning of the non-co-operation movement in 1920. It was intended to extend the official history of the Congress by Pattabhi Sitarammayya by making it more accessible to western re...

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ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: MAHATMA GANDHI'S IDEAS (1929)

C.F. ANDREWS

First published in 1929, this book was intended to explain, "with documentary evidence", the main principles and ideas for which Gandhi had stood over the course of his career up until that point. The author draws upon his long and intimate personal relationship with Gandhi to give an authoritative and individual account of a man whose politics and philosophy has invited contin...

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