"Provocative. Adams strips away Gandhi's saintly aura and explores the duality of India's most famous leader." — Financial Times Jad Adams traces the course of Gandhi's multi-faceted life and the development of his religious, political, and social thinking over seven tumultuous decades: from his comfortable upbringing in a princely state in Gujarat; his early civil rights campaigns; his leadership through civil disobedience in the 1920s and 1930s that made him a world icon; and finally to his assassination by a Hindu extremist in 1948, only months after the birth of an independent India.An elegant and masterly account of one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century history, Adams presents for the first time the true story behind the man whose life may truly be said to have changed the world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- For Julie
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction: Naked Ambition
- 1. Childhood and Marriage
- 2. London Lessons
- 3. Adventures in Natal
- 4. Challenge and Chastity
- 5. The Army of the Poor
- 6. Village Activist
- 7. Arousing India
- 8. The Salt March
- 9. World Icon
- 10. Quit India
- 11. Partition and Death
- 12. Legacy
- Notes
- Image Gallery
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
- Copyright
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