Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948

ISBN: 0307474798

Author: Guha, Ramachandra

Condition: New

Opening in July 1914, as Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa to return to India, Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1918 traces the Mahatmas life over the three decades preceding his assassination. Drawing on new archival materials, acclaimed historian Ramachandra Guha follows Gandhis struggle to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between Indias Hindus and Muslims, to end the pernicious practice of untouchability, and to nurture Indias economic and moral self-reliance. He shows how in each of these campaigns, Gandhi adapted methods of nonviolence that successfully challenged British authority and would influence revolutionary movements throughout the world. A revelatory look at the complexity of Gandhis thinking and motives, the book is a luminous portrait of not only the man himself, but also those closest to him-family, friends, and political and social leaders.