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Book · 2013
Gandhi Before India
Historian Ramachandra Guha reconstructs the foundational early decades of Mohandas Gandhi, tracing his upbringing in Gujarat, legal education in London, and formative two-decade residency in South Africa. The volume reveals how his encounters with systemic racial discrimination abroad led him to forge the philosophy of nonviolent resistance known as Satyagraha.
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A definitive work that provides rare insight into the Gandhi of the early years. Guha's monograph is more intensely researched, carefully structured, and comprehensive than contemporary biographies.
Shaikh Mujibur Rehman on The Hindu Gandhi Before India is supremely a historian's biography, down to its evident relish for new documentary evidence. Guha provides an exhaustively researched account of the formative years.
Elleke Boehmer on The Independent Guha is one of the subcontinent's most influential historians... an impressive life of Gandhi that is at pains to show the true origins of India's national hero. A ground-breaking study.
Robert McCrum on The Guardian
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