Gandhi - The years that changed the world

 



Name : Gandhi : The Years that changed the world
Author : Ramachandra Guha
Year of Publication : 2018
Genre : Non-fiction,Biography
Rating : **** (4 stars out of 5)

In a doorstopper of a book, Ramachandra Guha covers MK Gandhi's years in India through a chronological narrative of painstaking research. Unlike the first volume which covers previously untouched terrain, this volume has to content itself with embellishing additional details about already known events. This is not the author's fault because 1915-1948 is a much analyzed period in Indian history. In the chapter covering MK Gandhi's weird "brahmacharya" experiments, the author could have been a bit more critical of the old man but unfairly ends up placing some portion of the blame at Manu's door. Some of the details may not interest the general reader ( Kasturba's last hours is described at an excruciatingly unnecessary length). Yet these criticisms are minor quibbles and this 1000 pages-plus book is a homage to the life of a great man, written in the author's typically light yet deep style.

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