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

    Written by Ramachandra Guha

    Narrated by Derek Perkins

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    This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades: to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India's Hindu and Muslim populations, to end the pernicious Hindu practice of untouchability, and to develop India's economic and moral self-reliance. We see how in each of these campaigns, Gandhi adapted methods of nonviolence-strikes, marches, fasts-that successfully challenged British authority, religious orthodoxy, social customs, and would influence non-violent, revolutionary movements throughout the world. In reconstructing Gandhi's life and work, Ramachandra Guha has drawn on sixty different archival collections, the most significant among them, a previously unavailable collection of papers belonging to Gandhi himself. Using this wealth of material, Guha creates a portrait of Gandhi and of those closest to him-family, friends, political and social leaders-that illuminates the complexity inside his thinking, his motives, his actions and their outcomes as he engaged with every important aspect of social and public life in the India of his time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateMar 12, 2019
    ISBN9781684415953
    Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
    Author

    Ramachandra Guha

    Born in Dehradun in 1958, and educated in Delhi and Calcutta, Ramachandra Guha pursued an academic career for ten years before becoming a full-time writer and regular on the global lecture circuit. He is also an internationally-renowned cricket journalist, editor of The Picador Book of Cricket and author of the prize-winning A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport. He lives in Bangalore.

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    • 5/5
      Exhaustive and balanced view of modern Indian history. Loved it!!
    • 5/5
      This is a book that one does not grudge the time spent on its thousand pages, as the great saga of India's struggle to gain independence under Gandhi's leadership and spiritual tutelage during the first half of the 20th century obviously deserves, and requires, such an expanded canvas to be portrayed in all its subtle variations and its twists and turns. The author has deservedly received huge praise for this 'magisterial' work, for he has afforded us not only the fruit of his labors in the archives of three continents, but also his best-considered judgments on the crucial issues involved in this epic story, especially in his Epilogue. Uppermost among these questions is bound to be the feasibility of religious co-existence and the responsibility or culpability for Partition with the horrific cruelties that attended it; the rivalry between Gandhi and Jinnah, and the reaction of Ambedkar; the role of the Hindutva forces and their culpability for the assassination of the Mahatma; the disagreements on the role of village occupations versus modern industrial development; and many others. The great merit of this work is the easy and direct language it uses, the straightforward chronological approach with very few flash-backs or anticipations of the future; the complete absence of lofty theories of historical progress or complex sentences with double or triple negatives; the absence of pomposity or any parading of scholarship. But we are secure in our trust that the author has done the homework for us, that he has made as thorough a study of the original documents as is humanly possible, and that he has presented facts without embellishment or ideological preconceptions. It is therefore an exemplary achievement of the art and science of historical writing, and will serve as a source book for further explorations on the reader's part.
    • 5/5
      You've got to be seriously interested in either Gandhi or India (or both) to check a 1100 page book out of the library. I am, and I found Guha's second biography of Gandhi, covering the last 37 years of life to be an engaging read. Guha,as he did in his earlier Gandhi book, Gandhi Before India, relies on outside sources as much as on Gandhi's collected works. These include contemporary news articles, letters to and from Gandhi and speeches and essays by Gandhi's allies and opponents. When I finished this book, I knew a good deal more about Gandhi and his impact than I had before; what most impressed me was Gandhi's evolution, even in his last year of life, always in the direction of greater compassion and commitment to the dignity and rights of all human beings. I may perhaps never write this in a review again, but this was a truly edifying book.