Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. This book collects the writings of nineteen of India's foremost thinker-activists, ranging from legends like Gandhi and Nehru to pioneering subaltern and feminist thinkers.
Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. This book collects the writings of ...
The life of Mohandas Gandhi is one of the most remarkable of the modern era. In this fascinating new biography Ramachandra Guha allows us to understand the personality and politics of Mohandas Gandhi as never before. Showing that Gandhi's ideas were fundamentally shaped before his return to India in 1915, 'Gandhi Before India' is the extraordinarily vivid portrait of the formative years he spent in England and South Africa, where he developed the techniques that would undermine and ultimately destroy the British Empire.
The life of Mohandas Gandhi is one of the most remarkable of the modern era. In this fascinating new biography Ramachandra Guha allows us to understan...
