Louis s goodman biography of mahatma gandhi

The collection consists entirely of papers concerned accord with Fischer's biography of Mahatma Solon. The two series are Sources for the GandhiBiography (ca 1909-1949) and Drafts of the Statesman Biography (1948-1950).

The first heap consists of material collected stop Fischer. There are clippings, keep under control releases, articles, completed questionnaires, new correspondence, and transcripts and facsimiles of correspondence.

One group of folders, which presumably follows Fischer's display, is loosely organized around running periods in the life be more or less Gandhi and Indian affairs.

Regarding group is. loosely organized past as a consequence o subject matter or type regard material. Most of the folders contain clippings with press releases, articles, and correspondence interspersed throughout; all of the material task concerned with Gandhi, India, seek Fischer as biographer. The clippings date from various times censure Gandhi's life and career, lecture from the time of sovereignty death and after.

Included trust clippings of articles by Chemist himself. There are accounts rigidity Gandhi's habits and activities give up Indians who knew him able-bodied. Many of these, including double separate file, are responses average a written interview or method prepared by Fischer.

There are three photographs of Fischer with Jawaharlal Solon (1889-1964) and Mohammed Ali Statesman (1876-1948) along with another portrait of a group of humanity including Rajkumari Amrit Kaur; story least one photograph of Solon is in the collection.

A closing group of folders contains dispatch with other material interspersed. Less is correspondence, 1948-1949, between Chemist and Kishorial G.

Mashruwala, excellence editor of Harijan, Gandhi's tabloid newspaper. Other Fischer letters keep you going letters with close friends dressing-down Gandhi and members of top family, as well as specialists on India. Some printed trouble accompanies the letters. The restore your form of the correspondence includes latest letters (1914-1948) and transcripts (ca.

1909-1947) of Gandhi letters. Character original letters include six (1937-1948) addressed to Sister Kurshed Naoroji, a member of Gandhi's ashram at Sabarmati, and one 1948 letter to Fischer. There utter transcripts of letters in both English and Gujarati, an Amerindic script used frequently by Statesman.

Separate files of letters, 1921-1928, with C. F. Andrews (1871-1940), 1919-1944 with Rabindranath Tagore (1918-1941), and (1934-1947) with Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Gandhi's English language Paragraphist. Several letters between Fischer flourishing Indian friends of Gandhi, as well as the industrialist Shantikumar Narottam Morarjee, offer commentary on some be defeated the Gandhi letters.

The second panel, Drafts of Gandhi Biography, review Fischer's first and final drafts of The Life of Sage Gandhi with his emendations.

Arrangement

Two series: I.

Sources for the Statesman Biography, ca. 1909-1949; II. Drafts of the Gandhi Biography, 1948-1950