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January 2008, Vol 98, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 39
© 2008 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.120139

IMAGES OF HEALTH

Spinning for India’s Independence

Theodore M. Brown, PhD and Elizabeth Fee, PhD

Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Elizabeth Fee is with the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

Correspondence: Reprint requests should be sent to Theodore M. Brown, PhD, History Department, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 (e-mail: theodore_brown@urmc.rochester.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

THIS PHOTOGRAPH OF Mohandas K. Gandhi (October 2, 1869–January 30, 1948), dressed only in a loincloth and working at his spinning wheel on the deck of the SS Rajputana, was taken in 1931 as Gandhi traveled to London to attend a high-level roundtable conference with British officials.1 Gandhi was leader of the Indian National Congress and the major force in its drive for independence. He had already led successful non-violent civil disobedience and tax resistance campaigns against British rule, culminating in the 250-mile "Salt March" from Ahmedabad to the Indian Ocean at Dandi (March 12–April 6, 1930).2 After violently . . . [Full Text]






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