Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
by Ramachandra Guha
“The job of a scholar, and a biographer in particular, is to suppress nothing. Whatever you find that is of interest or importance must be included, even if it makes you uncomfortable or makes your story less compelling or newsworthy” —Ramachandra Guha.
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“The book I recommend on him is a two-volume biography by Ramachandra Guha who’s an Indian historian. Gandhi has fallen out of favor in India now because the dominant political party, the BJP, is descended from groups that opposed Gandhi in his lifetime, one of whose members actually assassinated him. So the high standing that Gandhi had in the aftermath of his assassination in 1948 and in the decades thereafter has now dipped a bit, I think wrongly so. Guha—who is an admirer, although not an uncritical admirer—restores Gandhi to the place in history that is appropriate.” Read more...
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