ISBN10: 8185002355, ISBN13: 9788185002354, [publisher: Promilla and Co] Hardcover Contents Preface. 1. Gandhi at Tolstoy farm a center of spiritual purification and penance. 2. Gandhi Tolstoy and the Tolstoyans. 3. Truth and nonviolence the Gandhian way in ethics. 4. Gandhi and the black people of South Africa. 5. Suffragettes and Satyagraha Gandhi and the British Women's Suffrage Movement. 6. Gandhi and the theosophists. 7. The mythologization of Gandhi. 8. Gandhi and the ethical societies. 9. Mr. Gandhi's Baptist friends. 10. From petition to Swaraj Gandhi in London 1906 1909. 11. Gandhi Thoreau and Adin Ballou. 12. The second life of Mrs. Mayo. Appendices 1. A guide to Gandhi's London. 2. Gandhi in South Africa a critical look at the books about this era. 3. James D. Hunt published works. Bibliography. Index. In this far reaching series of essays author James Hunt examines the complex set of influences which helped shape Mohandas K. Gandhi leading to the transformation of an anglophile Indian lawyer into the Mahatma of historical myth. James Hunt is able to expand the existing scholarship on Gandhi and to deepen our understanding of the formation of his intellectual and spiritual program. These essays take the reader on a tour of the stimulating interactions encounters which brought a young Gandhi into dialogue with a remarkable selection of individuals and movements in South Africa and London. Hunt not only traces the complex and often surprising ...