the life of mahatma gandhi by louis fischer

The original letters include six (1937-1948) addressed to Sister Kurshed Naoroji, a member of Gandhi's ashram at Sabarmati, and one 1948 letter to Fischer. The rest of the correspondence includes original letters (1914-1948) and transcripts (ca.

Some printed matter accompanies the letters. Other Fischer letters include letters with close friends of Gandhi and members of his family, as well as specialists on India. Mashruwala, the editor of Harijan, Gandhi's weekly newspaper. There is correspondence, 1948-1949, between Fischer and Kishorial G. There are three photographs of Fischer with Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) and Mohammed Ali Jinnah (1876-1948) along with another photograph of a group of people including Rajkumari Amrit Kaur at least one photograph of Gandhi is in the collection.Ī final group of folders contains correspondence with other material interspersed. Many of these, including one separate file, are responses to a written interview or questionnaire prepared by Fischer. There are accounts of Gandhi's habits and activities by Indians who knew him well. Included are clippings of articles by Fischer himself. The clippings date from various times of Gandhi's life and career, and from the time of his death and after. Most of the folders contain clippings with press releases, articles, and correspondence interspersed throughout all of the material is concerned with Gandhi, India, or Fischer as biographer. loosely organized by subject matter or type of material. One group of folders, which presumably follows Fischer's arrangement, is loosely organized around chronological periods in the life of Gandhi and Indian affairs.

There are clippings, press releases, articles, completed questionnaires, original correspondence, and transcripts and facsimiles of correspondence. The first series consists of material collected by Fischer. The two series are Sources for the Gandhi Biography (ca 1909-1949) and Drafts of the Gandhi Biography (1948-1950).

The collection consists entirely of papers concerned with Fischer's biography of Mahatma Gandhi.

The life of mahatma gandhi by louis fischer