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“The other advantage of Guha’s two-volume biography is that the first volume is dedicated to his years in South Africa, where he went soon after returning from Great Britain, where he had qualified as a lawyer. It was in South Africa that his political personality and his spiritual personality were really formed. So in order to understand Gandhi, you need to understand the South Africa years and Guha devotes an entire volume to them.” Read more...
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