Gandhi The Years that Changed (PB) The Years That Changed the World

Beginning in July 1914 as Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa to return to India Gandhi The Years That Changed the World 1914-1948 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 from British 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. Guha shows how in each of these campaigns Gandhi adapted methods of non-violence that successfully challenged British authority and influenced revolutionary movements throughout the world. A revelatory look at the complexity of Gandhi's thinking and motives the book is a luminous portrait of the man himself as well as his family friends colleagues rivals and adversaries.