"First published 1970 ; reissued as a Norton paperback 1993"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-461) and index

Prologue : Echoes of an event -- India: first encounters -- A seminar in Ahmedabad -- The elusive event -- pt. 1. The inquiry -- The witnesses : The autobiography ; Survivors -- The counterplayer -- Four old Indians -- pt. 2. The past. Childhood and youth : Moniya and his mother ; Mohan and his father ; The curse ; Mohandas and his evil friend -- From vow to vocation : The inner and the outer man ; Arjuna in the court of small claims ; The only one available -- Householder in South Africa : Somebody ; Nobody ; Instrument of peace ; Manifesto -- pt. 3. The event : A personal word -- Prophet in his onw country : Why Ahmedabad? ; The four-fold ruin ; Confrontation ; Breakthrough -- Companions and countnerplayers : The Sarabhais ; Shankerlal Banker ; Mahadev ; Sons and followers -- The event retold -- Aftermath : Satyagrahi and soldier ; Patient and Mahatma -- pt. 4. The leverage of truth : Homo religiosus -- The instrument : Tactics ; Ritual ; Insight -- Epilogue : March to the sea

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