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Gandhi : the true man behind modern India / Jad Adams.

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Pegasus Books, c2011.

Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.

Statesmen -- India -- Biography.

Nationalists -- India -- Biography.

India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947.

9781605981710 :

1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.

323 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Originally publlished as: Gandhi : naked ambition. London : Quercus, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-309) and index.

Introduction : naked ambition -- Childhood and marriage -- London lessons -- Adventures in Natal -- Challenge and chastity -- The army of the poor -- Village activist -- Arousing India -- The salt march -- World icon -- Quit India -- Partition and death -- Legacy.

Gandhi has inspired civil rights and liberation movements the world over. Yet he was also a man of many contradictions. His resistance to racism strikes a thoroughly modern note, but his vision of India was that of an almost medieval society. Adams delineates Gandhi's incredible drive, including his relentless reinvention of his own persona.

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