With a new introduction by Makarand R. ParanjapeThe life of Mahatma Gandhi is the story of a legend. In Mahatma Gandhi The Great Indian Way Raja Rao upends the genre of the literary biography with inventive non-linear chronology through dialogue and anecdote situating the physical within the metaphysical and with a text that is both retrospective and contemporary at the same time. By mapping genealogies and distilling them Rao focuses on Gandhi's years in South Africa the birth of non-violent re