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Size : Crown 1/16 (12 x 18 cm)
Price : 40.00 (in Indian Rupee)

This book will have more than served its purpose if it inspires the reader, be he a lawyer or a layman, with the belief that the vocation of the lawyer is an honourable vocation requiring the highest standards of rectitude, integrity and uprightness, and that its practice is in no way inconsistent with the pursuit of truth.

[ From the introduction by Sunit B. Kher,
the compiler ]

CONTENTS

Section I : Gandhiji as a Law Student

1 PREPARATION FOR ENGLAND 2 PREPARATION FOR THE BAR 3 'CALLED'-BUT THEN’

Section II : Gandhiji as a Lawyer

4 HOW 1 BEGAN LIFE 5 THE FIRST CASE 6 THE FIRST SHOCK 7 PREPARING FOR SOUTH AFRICA 8 ARRIVAL IN NATAL 9 SOME EXPERIENCES 10 ON THE WAY TO PRETORIA 11 FIRST DAY IN PRETORIA 12 PREPARATION FOR THE CASE 13 MAN PROPOSES, GOD DISPOSES 14 SETTLED IN NATAL 15 COLOUR BAR 16 SETTLED IN BOMBAY? 17 SOME REMINISCENCES OF THE BAR 18 CLIENTS TURNED CO-WORKERS 19 HOW A CLIENT WAS SAVED

Section III The Trials of Gandhiji

20 BEFORE THE COURT IN 1907 21 BEFORE THE COURT IN 1908 22 BEFORE THE COURT IN 1913 23 WAS IT CONTEMPT OF COURTS 24 CONTEMPT OF COURT 25 THE GREAT TRIAL

Section IV: Lawyers and Satyagraha

26 COURTS AND SCHOOLS, 27 LAWYERS AND NON-CO-OPERATION 28 THE HALLUCINATION OF LAW COURTS 29 COBBLER v LAWYERS 30 HOW MANY LAWYERS AND STUDENTS HELP 31 PRACTISING LAWYERS 12 A PROTEST 33 PRACTISING LAWYERS 34 ABOUT LAWYERS 35 THE SATYAGRAHI LAWYERS 36 MYSORE LAWYERS 37 SHRI DASAPPA'S CASE 38 BABU KALINATH ROY 39 LALA RADHA KRISHNA'S CASE 40 THE LAHORE JUDGMENT 41 JAGANNATH'S CASE 42 ANOTHER SCANDAL 43 VICTIMS, NOT GUILTY 44 DR SATYAPAL'S CASE 45 LALA LABHU RAM 46 GUJARATIMAL'S CASE 47 LABH SINGH, M A LL B (CANTAB), BAR-AT-LAW 48 MORE PUNJAB TRAGEDIES 49 HOW NOT TO DO IT? 50 FINING THE LABOURERS

Section V: Miscellaneous

51 HOW TO SPIRITUALIZE THE PROFESSION 52 BIRDS OF A FEATHER (?) 53 A JUDGE'S INDICTMENT 54 AN UNJUDICIAL DICTUM 55 UNTRUTH IN LAW COURTS 56 HINDU LAW AND MYSORE 57 THE FEDERAL COURT 58 THE FEDERAL COURT 59 THE PLACE OF THE LAWYERS IN A NON-VIOLENT SOCIETY 60 AN ADVOCATE'S DILEMMA 61 5, 000 MILES AWAY 62 JUSTICE FROM SIX THOUSAND MILES 63 NAVAKAL PROSECUTION 64 AUNDH CONSTITUTION 65 CIVIL V CRIMINAL 66 GANDHIJI'S FAMOUS CUSTOMS DECLARATION

Appendices

APPENDIX I

1 TEMPERING WITH LOYALTY 2 A PUZZLE AND ITS SOLUTION 3 SHAKING THE MANES

APPENDIX II

GANDHIJI'S THOUGHTS ON THE LAW AND THE LAWYERS

APPENDIX III

GANDHIJI AS A JURIST

APPENDIX IV

GANDHIJI'S APPLICATION FOR ENROLMENT AS AN ADVOCATE OF THE BOMBAY HIGH COURT

APPENDIX V

GANDHIJI'S CERTIFICATE OF BEING CALLED TO THE BAR BY INNER TEMPLE

APPENDIX VI

CERTIFICATE FROM MR W D EDWARDS, AUTHOR AND PRACTISING BARRISTER IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE IN ENGLAND, RECOMMENDING GANDHIJI'S NAME FOR ADMISSION AS AN ADVOCATE OF THE HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY CONTENTS

APPENDIX VII

TRUE COPY OF THE ORDER ISSUED BY THE BENCHERS OF INNER TEMPLE ON 10TH NOVEMBER 1922 DISBARRING GANDHIJI AND REMOVING HIS NAME FROM THE ROLL OF BARRISTERS ON HIS CONVICTION AND SENTENCE TO SIX YEARS' IMPRISONMENT ON 18TH MARCH 1922 BY THE COURT OF THE SESSIONS JUDGE, AHMEDABAD

APPENDIX VIII

LETTER TO THE AUTHOR FROM

THE RIGHT HON LORD DENNING

GLOSSARY

INDEX


 

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[ ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS ] [ ASHRAM OBSERVANCE IN ACTION ]  [ DIET AND DIET REFORM ]  [ GANDHI FACES THE STORM ]
[ GANDHI WIELDS THE WEPON OF MORAL POWER ]  [ GANDHIJI EXPECTS ]  [ HIND SWARAJ OR INDIAN HOME RULE ]  [ INDIA OF MY DREAMS ]
[ INDUSTRIAL AND AGRARIAN LIFE AND RELATIONS ]  [ KEY TO HEALTH ]  [ MOHAN-MALA ]  [ MY RELIGION ]  [ NATURE CURE ]  [ PATHWAY TO GOD ]  [ PRAYER ]
[ SATYAGRAHA IN SOUTH AFRICA ]  [ SELECTIONS FROM GANDHI ]  [ SELF-RESTRAINT v. SELF-INDULGENCE ]  [ THE ESSENCE OF HINDUISM ]
[ THE GOSPEL OF SELFLESS ACTION OR THE GITA ACCORDING TO GANDHI ]  [ THE LAW AND THE LAYERS ]  [ THE MIND OF MAHATMA GANDHI ]
[ THE WAY TO COMMUNAL HARMONY ]  [ TOWARDS NEW EDUCATION ]  [ TRUTH IS GOD ]  [ VILLAGE SWARAJ ]  [ GANDHI ]  [ GANDHI IN ANECDOTES ]
[ THE SPIRITUAL BASIS OF SATYAGRAHA ]  [ ‘‘GOING TO WIPE THEIR TEARS’’ ]