Gandhi : the years that changed the world, 1914-1948
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 897-989) and index.

Opening in July 1914, as Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa to return to India, Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1918 traces the Mahatma?s life over the three decades preceding his assassination. Drawing on new archival materials, acclaimed historian Ramachandra Guha follows Gandhi?s struggle to deliver India fromBritish rule, to forge harmonious relations between India?s Hindus and Muslims, to end the pernicious practice of untouchability, and to nurture India?s economic and moral self-reliance. He shows how in each of these campaigns, Gandhi adapted methods of nonviolencethat successfully challenged British authority and would influence revolutionary movements throughout the world. A revelatory look at the complexity of Gandhi?s thinking and motives, the book is a luminous portrait of not only the man himself, but also thoseclosest to him?family, friends, and political and social leaders. --Publisher