A New York Times Notable Book of 2018, this magnificent biography of Gandhi by India’s leading historian has been hailed as essential reading by critics and scholars alike. ‘Gandhi’s finest biographer’ David Kynaston, Guardian. ‘Essential reading … will not be bettered’ Ferdinand Mount, Wall Street Journal. Few lives of the twentieth century burned as brightly — or as controversially — as Mahatma Gandhi’s. He inspired and enraged, challenged and galvanised millions across the globe, and did more than anyone else to bring down the British Raj, armed with nothing more than argument and example. At a moment in history when violence was reshaping the world on an unprecedented scale, and when Fascist and Communist dictatorships seemed to define the age, Gandhi pursued a revolutionary path of his own. Drawing on many new sources and animated by a wonderful sense of drama and politics, this book follows Gandhi’s story from his departure from South Africa through to his assassination in 1948. It moves with a Tolstoyan sweep, placing Gandhi both in the eyes of his contemporaries and against the vast, varied landscapes and societies of India he transformed so profoundly. A major reappraisal of the crucial years in a titanic life.
ISBN 13: 9780141044231
Author: Ramachandra Guha
