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This great soul was assassinated over 50 years ago
Gandhi
(Great Names series)
by
Diane Cook
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| A shy boy and a tongue-tied lawyer, Gandhi didn’t seem like someone who would become a great leader, but later in life, Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi showed the India people how to throw off British rule through his peaceful Noncooperation Movement, a movement based on love, not hate.
Gandhi taught the Indian people how to break the power of the British by refusing to abide by an unfair tax on salt, by refusing to buy cloth made in Britain, and by refusing to work for the British.
He was assassinated on January 30, 1948, soon after India gained its independence from Britain.
Although his influence is not discussed in this biography, Gandhi’s ideas inspired a young black leader, Martin Luther King Jr., who advocated similar non-violent resistance during the civil rights era in the United States. (Think of the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.)
Gandhi (Great Names series) by Diane Cook, illustrated by Robert Ingpen (Mason Crest, 2003), 32 pages.
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| Sex, Nudity, Reproduction |
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| Violence |
Moderate—descriptions of beatings, the Massacre of Amristar, Gandhi's assassination—not graphic. |
| Dishonesty/Criminal Behavior |
Not Rated—read before I created this category. |
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| Positives |
Mahatma Gandhi's Noncooperation Movement not only freed India from British rule, it inspired Martin Luther King, Jr., to use similar non-violent methods in the civil rights movement. Gandhi was, indeed, a great soul. |
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