Talk:Mahatma Gandhi/First reference to Gandhi in Indian History Texts

This page is a list of first reference to Gandhi in 16 standard textbooks on Indian history used in the British Raj page. Of these seven have the full name "Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi," three each have names, "M. K. Gandhi," and "Mahatma Gandhi," two have "Gandhi," and one, "Mohandas K. Gandhi."

Contemporary general textbooks

• Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar (2004), From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India, New Delhi and London: Orient Longmans. Pp. xx, 548., ISBN 978-81-250-2596-2.
  • Mahatma Gandhi. Quote: "The alternate vision of universalism, rooted in Indian civilization and propounded by men like Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi ..." (page 185).
• Bose, Sugata; Jalal, Ayesha (2003), Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy, London and New York: Routledge, 2nd edition. Pp. xiii, 304, ISBN 978-0-415-30787-1.
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Quote: "Rabindranath Tagore, modern India's most celebrated poet, informed Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in 1939 that he could identify only two 'modernists' among India's national leaders." (page 12)
• Brown, Judith M. (1994), Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiii, 474, ISBN 978-0-19-873113-9.
  • M. K. Gandhi. Quote: "Later, still, in the twentieth century, the image of 'spiritual India' was reinforced by those westerners who were captivated by the preaching of non-violence by M. K. Gandhi during the nationalist movement; ..." (page 4)
• Copland, Ian (2001), India 1885-1947: The Unmaking of an Empire (Seminar Studies in History Series), Harlow and London: Pearson Longmans. Pp. 160, ISBN 978-0-582-38173-5.
  • Mahatma Gandhi. Quote: "As for the alternative, selective civil disobedience, the problem there, as Mahatma Gandhi would discover in 1920 ..." (page 7)
• Hyam, Ronald (2007), Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation 1918-1968., Cambridge University Press., ISBN 978-0-521-86649-1.
  • Gandhi. Quote: "Few people in the 1940s could have named any 'empire' figures, except Gandhi, famous for his skeletal appearance, and Don Bradman, the Australian batsman, knighted in 1949." (Page 3.)
• Judd, Dennis (2004), The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600-1947, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiii, 280, ISBN 978-0-19-280358-0.
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Quote: "... the return to his native land of the British educated barrister, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, following his remarkable success in mobilizing ..." (page 108)
• Kulke, Hermann; Rothermund, Dietmar (2004), A History of India, 4th edition. Routledge, Pp. xii, 448, ISBN 978-0-415-32920-0.
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Quote: "The protest against the Rowlatt Acts had to be articulated somehow, and a new leader appeared on the scene who knew what to do: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi." (page 292)
• Ludden, David (2002), India And South Asia: A Short History, Oxford: Oneworld Publications. Pp. xii, 306, ISBN 978-1-85168-237-9
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Quote: "In Gujrat – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's homeland – it became difficult to say where Jainism ended and where Hinduism began. (Page 54)
• Markovits, Claude (ed) (2005), A History of Modern India 1480-1950 (Anthem South Asian Studies), Anthem Press. Pp. 607, ISBN 978-1-84331-152-2 {{citation}}: |first1= has generic name (help).
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Quote: In 1915, an event occurred which went largely unnoticed: the return to India after almost twenty-five years of stay in South Africa, of an Gujrati advocate, who had gone there to defend the cause of his immigrant compatriots. His name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi." (page 365)
• Metcalf, Barbara; Metcalf, Thomas R. (2006), A Concise History of Modern India (Cambridge Concise Histories), Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xxxiii, 372, ISBN 978-0-521-68225-1.
  • Mohandas K. Gandhi. Quote: "They chose instead ... a new leader, Mohandas K. Gandhi, only recently returned from twenty years in South Africa." (Page 167)
• Peers, Douglas M. (2006), India under Colonial Rule 1700-1885, Harlow and London: Pearson Longmans. Pp. xvi, 163, ISBN 058231738 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help).
  • Mahatma Gandhi. Quote: "The increasing alienation of the Indian elite from colonial rule, which Mahatma Gandhi would declare in 1909 in Hind Swaraj to be the desire ...." (page 81).
• Robb, Peter (2004), A History of India (Palgrave Essential Histories), Houndmills, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xiv, 344, ISBN 978-0-333-69129-8.
  • M. K. Gandhi. Quote: "The Bania and lawyer, M. K. Gandhi, made his own selection among 'pure' attributes to shape his very public private life and his struggle against colonial rule." (page 20).
• Sarkar, Sumit (1983), Modern India: 1885-1947, Delhi: Macmillan India Ltd. Pp. xiv, 486, ISBN 978-0-333-90425-1.
  • Gandhi. Quote: "... Gandhi recalls J. Ghoshal asking him to button his shirt for him during the Calcutta Congress in 1901 ..." (page 92)
• Spear, Percival (1990), A History of India, Volume 2, New Delhi and London: Penguin Books. Pp. 298, ISBN 978-0-14-013836-8.
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Quote: "The new indignation now found a new leader. He was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a lawyer of forty-nine recently returned from South Africa." (Page 190)
• Stein, Burton (2001), A History of India, New Delhi and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiv, 432, ISBN 978-0-19-565446-2.
  • M. K. Gandhi. Quote: "During M. K. Gandhi's stewardship over the Congress, a mass movement was created to carry the freedom struggle forward after the First World War." (Page 33)
• Wolpert, Stanley (2003), A New History of India, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 544, ISBN 978-0-19-516678-1.
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Quote: "On the eve of the outbreak of the war, another of Gokhale's disciples, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948), also arrived in London, ..." (page 287)