Mahatma Gandhi

<p>With a new introduction by Makarand R. Paranjape</p><br><p>The life of Mahatma Gandhi is the story of a legend. In <i>Mahatma Gandhi: The Great Indian Way</i> 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 resistance and then moves into the epic freedom struggle in India which brought Gandhi to worldwide renown in his own lifetime.</p><p>With an emphasis on the idea of dharma as a framework for Gandhism both in South Africa and India this is the story of the man as much as the Mahatma.</p>