TY - BOOK AU - Madhav Govindu, Venu TI - The Web of Freedom: J. C. Kumarappa and Gandhi’s Struggle for Economic Justice SN - 9780199460816 U1 - 330.1092 PY - 2016/// CY - India PB - Oxford University Press KW - Law KW - Economic Justice N1 - In June 1929, a thirty-seven-year-old chartered accountant dressed in Western clothes walked into the Khadi Bhandar on Kalbadevi Road, Bombay, to be ‘measured up’ for a dhoti. Having never worn one in his life, he had no idea that dhotis came in fixed lengths. Weeks ago, the same man had filed an affidavit to change his name from Joseph Chelladurai Cornelius to Joseph Cornelius Kumarappa. Discarding an alien name and attire, the anglicized professional was rapidly transforming into a dogged fighter for social justice. ER -