Gandhi Before India
by Ramachandra Guha
Buy on AmazonA first volume of a series detailing the life and work of the influential political advocate draws on private papers and other untapped sources to cover his birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, discussing his London education and decades as a lawyer in South Africa. "In 1893, when Gandhi set sail for South Africa, he was a twenty-three-year-old lawyer who had failed to establish himself in India. In this remarkable biography, the author makes clear the fundamental ways in which Gandhi's ideas were shaped before his return to India in 1915.…
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"The other advantage of Guha’s two-volume biography is that the first volume is dedicated to his years in South Africa, where he went soon after returning from Great Britain, where he had qualified as a lawyer. It was in South Africa that his political personality and his spiritual personality were really formed. So in order to understand Gandhi, you need to understand the South Africa years and Guha devotes an entire volume to them."
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