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Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action
Dalton, Dennis. Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Why this matters here
Dennis Dalton’s study of Gandhi’s nonviolent power centers the Salt March: a ceremonial violation at Dandi that Gandhi then declared reproducible—anyone willing to risk prosecution could manufacture salt and refuse the monopoly. When Others Become Leaders uses that documented gesture to distinguish singular legitimacy from transferable method. Dalton reconstructs the campaign; the book asks how authority that depends on a famous person differs from a movement prepared for his absence.
