Biographies & Memoirs

Bibliography

Adams, Jad and Whitehead, Phillip The Dynasty: The Nehru-Gandhi Story (London: Penguin) 1997

Ambedkar, B.R. What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables (Bombay: Thacker & Co.) 1945

Andrews, C.F. Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas (London: Allen & Unwin) 1931

Avon, Earl of The Eden Memoirs: Facing the Dictators (London: Cassell) 1962

Birkenhead, Earl Halifax (London: Hamish Hamilton) 1965

Bolitho, Hector Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan (Lahore: Oxford University Press) 1969

Bose, N.K. My Days with Gandhi (Calcutta: Nishana) 1953

Brown, Judith Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope (New Haven: Yale University Press) 1989

Campbell-Johnson, Alan Mission with Mountbatten (London: Hamish Hamilton) 1985

Chadha, Yogesh Rediscovering Gandhi (London: Century) 1997

Clarke, Peter The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps (London: Allen Lane) 2002

Clarke, Ronald O. “The Narcissistic Guru: A Profile of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh,’ in Aveling, Harry (ed.) Osho Rajneesh and His Disciples (New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass) 1999

Cousins, Norman (ed.) Profiles of Gandhi: America Remembers a World Leader (New Delhi: Indian Book Company) 1969

Curtis, Lionel Civitas Dei (London: Macmillan) 3 vols 1934-7

Desai, Mahadev The Diary of Mahadev Desai (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1953

Desai, V.G. Day to Day with Gandhi 9 vols (Varanasi: Sarva Seva Sangh Prakashan) 1968-74

Erikson, Erik H. Gandhi’s Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence (London: Faber & Faber) 1970

Fischer, Louis The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (London: Jonathan Cape) 1951

Gandhi, Arun Daughter of Midnight: The Child Bride of Gandhi (London: Blake Publishing) 1998

Gandhi, M.K. Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1938

—Bapu’s Letters to Mira (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1949

—Satyagraha in South Africa (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1950

—Gokhale, My Political Guru (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1955

—Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India) 1958-97. Vols 1-90 are chronological (though vol. 1 later reformatted and reissued). Vols 91-7 are papers collected after the initial publication; 98-100 are indexes. A new edition of collected works published in 2000 with a CD ROM led to controversy when its accuracy was challenged by Gandhi scholars. A digitised version was put online by the GandhiServe Foundation in 2002.

—An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth (London: Penguin) 1982

Gandhi, Manu Last Glimpses of Bapu (Delhi: Shiva Lai Agarwala & Co.) 1962

—The End of an Epoch (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1962

Gandhi, Rajmohan Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empire (London: Haus) 2007

Gilbert, Martin Winston S. Churchill vol. 5 1922-1939 (London: Heinemann) 1976

Godse, Nathuram Why I Assassinated Mahatma Gandhi (New Delhi: Surya Bharti Parkashan) 1993

Gopal, Sarvepalli Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography vol. 2 1947-1956 (London: Jonathan Cape) 1979

Harris, Kenneth Attlee (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson) 1982

Hills, A.E Essays on Vegetarianism (London: Ideal Publishing Union) 1894

Hunt, James D. Gandhi in London (New Delhi: Promilla & Co.) 1978

Kramer, Joel and Alstad, Diana The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power (Berkeley: Frog. Ltd) 1993

Kumar, Girja Brahmacharya: Gandhi and his Women Associates (New Delhi: Vitasta Publishing) 2006

Lester, Muriel Entertaining Gandhi (London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson) 1932

Mansergh, Nicholas The Transfer of Power 1942-7 12 vols (London: HMSO) 1970-83

Mehta, Ved Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles (London: Penguin) 1977

Millin, Sarah Gertrude General Smuts vol. 1 (London: Faber & Faber) 1936

Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten’s Report on the Last Viceroyalty (New Delhi: Manohar) 2003

Nanda, B.R. Mahatma Gandhi: A Biography (New Delhi: Oxford University Press) 1996

Nayar, Sushila Kasturba: Wife of Gandhi (Wallingford, Pennsylvania: Pendle Hill) 1948

—Mahatma Gandhi vol. 4 Satyagraha at Work (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1989

—Mahatma Gandhi vol. 5 India Awakened (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1994

—Mahatma Gandhi vol. 6 Salt Satyagraha: The Watershed (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1995

—Mahatma Gandhi vol. 7 Preparing for Swaraj (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1996

—Mahatma Gandhi vol. 8 Final Fight for Freedom (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1997

Nehru, Jawaharlal Speeches vol. 1 September 1946-May 1949 (Delhi: Publications Division, Government of India) 1949 — An Autobiography (London: Bodley Head) 1953

Noorani, A.G. Savarkar and Hindutva: The Godse Connection (New Delhi: Leftword Books) 2002

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi, The Scope of Happiness (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson) 1979

Patel, Raojibhai Hind Ke Sardar (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1972

Paxton, George Sonja Schlesin: Gandhi’s South African Secretary (Glasgow: Pax Books) 2006

Pyarelal The Epic Fast (Ahmedabad: Mohanlal Maganlal Bhatt) 1932

—Mahatma Gandhi vol. 1 The Early Phase (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1965

—Mahatma Gandhi vol. 2 The Discovery of Satyagraha—On the Threshold (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1980

—Mahatma Gandhi vol. 3 The Birth of Satyagraha: From Petitioning to Passive Resistance (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1986

—Mahatma Gandhi vol. 9 The Last Phase part 1 (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1997

—Mahatma Gandhi vol. 10 The Last Phase part 2 (Ahmedabad: Navajivan) 1997

Rawal, Munni Dadabhai Naoroji: A Prophet of Indian Nationalism (New Delhi: Anmol Publications) 1989

Read, Anthony and Fisher, David The Proudest Day: India’s Long Road to Independence (London: Jonathan Cape) 1997

Roberts, Andrew The Holy Fox: A Life of Lord Halifax (London: Papermac) 1991

Rolland, Romain Mahatma Gandhi: The Man Who Became One with the Universal Being (New York: Century Co.) 1924

Sanger, Margaret An Autobiography (London: Victor Gollancz) 1939

Sarila, Narendra Singh Once a Prince of Sarila (London: LB. Tauris) 2008

Schofield, Victoria Wavell: Soldier and Statesman (London: John Murray) 2006

Shukla, Chandrashanker (ed.) Gandhiji As We Know Him (Bombay: Vora & Co.) 1945

Slade, Madeleine (Mirabehn) The Spirit’s Pilgrimage (London: Longmans) 1960

Smuts, J.C. Jan Christian Smuts (London: Cassell) 1952

Swan, Maureen Gandhi: The South African Experience (Johannesburg: Raven Press) 1985

Tagore, Rabindranath ‘The Cult of the Chakra’ Modern Review September 1925

Tidrick, Kathryn Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life (London: LB. Tauris) 2006

Tinker, Hugh Viceroy: Curzon to Mountbatten (Karachi: Oxford University Press) 1997 p. 94

Troyat, Henri Tolstoy (London: Penguin) 1970

Tunzelmann, Alex von Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire (London: Simon & Schuster) 2007

Wavell, Archibald The Viceroy’s Journal ed. Penderel Moon (London: Oxford University Press) 1973

Weber, Thomas On the Salt March: The Historiography of Gandhi’s March to Dandi (New Delhi: HarperCollins) 1997

Wolpert, Stanley Jinnah of Pakistan (New Delhi: Oxford University Press) 2005

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