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Gandhi and the formation of the African National Congress of South Africa

Gandhi and the formation of the African National Congress of South Africa

"January 8, 1912, is the centenary of the African National Congress of South Africa."

The birth of the African National Congress a century ago, on January 8, 1912, was a landmark in the history of Africa, marking the beginning of the end of centuries of exploitation and humiliation of the continent. It received hardly any attention at the time internationally or from the white establishment in South Africa.

M. K. Gandhi, who was then looking after the families of prisoners and ex-prisoners at the Tolstoy Farm near Johannesburg, during a lull in the passive resistance movement in the Transvaal, hailed the event as representing “the awakening of Africa.” ...Read More

New Book Published : Revolutionary Gandhi

REVOLUTIONARY GANDHI

A great revolutionary appraises the greatest revolutionary of modern times

By : Pannalal Dasgupta   Translated from Bengali by : K. V. Subrahmonyan

Published by : Earthcare Books, 10 Middleton Street, Kolkata, West Bengal,  700 071 India.

Pages : 490+24     Price : Rs. 395/-

About the Book:

Pannalal Dasgupta (aka Panna Babu) wrote the Bengali original of this outstanding, insightful book on Gandhi in 1954-55, when imprisoned in the Alipore Central Jail. An indomitable revolutionary himself, he realised that Gandhi was indeed an extraordinary revolutionary who sought a radical change in the human condition, which could not be brought about without causing a ferment in society. 

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