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020 _a9780143475873
037 _cPurchased
_nPrism Books, Kadavanthra
041 _aEnglish
082 _a920.054092
_bPRA/DA
100 _aPrabhudas Gandhi
245 _aDAWN OF LIFE
_b: M K Gandhi in South Africa
250 _a1
260 _aHaryana
_bViking -Penguin Books
_c2025
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500 _aPrabhudas Gandhi was born in 1901 in Porbandar to Chhaganlal Gandhi and Kashiben and like many members of his family, spent his childhood in South Africa at the Phoenix Ashram. The memoir, Jeevan nu Parodh in Gujarati was serialized in a hand-written journal called Madhpudo (The Beehive) that Prabhudas edited at Sabaramati Ashram and published as a book in 1948 in the bloodied aftermath of independence. Awarded the Narmad Suvarna Chandak award, The Dawn of Life is an engaging and elaborate account of Gandhi’s imagination of swaraj, both personal and collective. It flows from the memory of a young Prabhudas who migrated to Phoenix Settlement in 1905 to join his father and uncle Maganlal Gandhi. It has a ring of innocence, which is as refreshing as it is deceptive, for the author forces the reader to look within and confront her fears, prejudices and violent impulses. Being made available to English readership after more than a century since its original inscription, the book pleads for the recovery of a dawn that has remained shrouded far too long in the pitch-dark of communalism, casteism and chauvinisms of various kinds. Translated by Hemang Ashwinkumar, this memoir is an unique witness to the history of India and of the subcontinent.
650 _aHistory & geography 
650 _aBiography & genealogy 
650 _aBiography, genealogy, insignia 
650 _aGeneral and collective by localities Of Asia 
650 _aIndia and neighboring south Asian countries 
700 _aHemang Ashwinkumar (tr.)
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