'Essential reading ... will not be bettered' Ferdinand Mount Wall Street Journal'Gandhi's
finest biographer' David Kynaston GuardianThe magnificent new biography of Gandhi by India's
leading historianA New York Times Notable Book of 2018Gandhi lived one of the great
20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged challenged and galvanized many millions of men and
women around the world. He lived almost entirely in the shadow of the British Raj which for
much of his life seemed a permanent fact but which he did more than anyone else to destroy
using revolutionary tactics. In a world defined by violence on a scale never imagined before
and by ferocious Fascist and Communist dictatorship he was armed with nothing more than his
arguments and example.This magnificent book tells the story of Gandhi's life from his
departure from South Africa to his assassination in 1948. It is a book with a Tolstoyan sweep
both allowing us to see Gandhi as he was understood by his contemporaries and the vast varied
Indian societies and landscapes which he travelled through and changed beyond measure. Drawing
on many new sources and animated by its author's wonderful sense of drama and politics Gandhi
is a major reappraisal of the crucial years in this titanic figure's story.
