Here is a link to the version of the book required https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/gandhi-hind-swaraj-and-other-writings/79AA4643B302279F6B57AE5CF6493F02
1.What are Gandhi’s overall or major arguments? If you had to summarize the book in one page, what would you say? Here we seek the governing ideas and structure of the text, keeping in mind that we have a limited space in which to summarize it.
2.How does Gandhi seek to be persuasive? Here we are looking for literary styles and techniques that Gandhi uses to convince us of his case. What are two or three devices which Gandhi uses, and how do they seek to persuade you? No special knowledge of rhetoric or style is expected; I would like you simply to reflect on the text’s efforts to convince readers.
3.Why might Gandhi write what he does? Here I would like you to suggest, thinking of lessons 1-3, an event(s) or issue(s) in Gandhi's own life that might help to explain why Gandhi composed this book. Our aim is not to restate the book’s arguments, but to move behind them and suggest in historical or social terms what might drive Gandhi to write.
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