Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha
Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha
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Gandhi
The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948

Author: Ramachandra Guha

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Unabridged: 36 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/12/2019

Synopsis

This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades: to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India's Hindu and Muslim populations, to end the pernicious Hindu practice of untouchability, and to develop India's economic and moral self-reliance. We see how in each of these campaigns, Gandhi adapted methods of nonviolence—strikes, marches, fasts—that successfully challenged British authority, religious orthodoxy, social customs, and would influence non-violent, revolutionary movements throughout the world. In reconstructing Gandhi's life and work, Ramachandra Guha has drawn on sixty different archival collections, the most significant among them, a previously unavailable collection of papers belonging to Gandhi himself. Using this wealth of material, Guha creates a portrait of Gandhi and of those closest to him—family, friends, political and social leaders—that illuminates the complexity inside his thinking, his motives, his actions and their outcomes as he engaged with every important aspect of social and public life in the India of his time.

About Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha has taught at Yale and Stanford universities, the University of Oslo, the Indian Institute of Science, and the London School of Economics. His books include the award-winning India After Gandhi, and the first volume of this biography, Gandhi Before India, which was a 2014 New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. He writes regularly on social and political issues for the New York Times, and for the British and Indian presses, including the Telegraph and the Hindustan Times. He lives in Bangalore, India.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lubinka on March 10, 2019

I suppose I belong to the kind of audience to which Ramachandra Guha refers at the beginning of his book – people whose image of Gandhi is more or less limited to some basic knowledge, partially influenced by his depiction in the Ben Kingsley movie. Many have virtually no idea that Gandhi spent a hu......more

Goodreads review by Marks54 on March 12, 2019

This is the first volume of a two volume biography of Gandhi. It features Gandhi in a 20 plus year career as a “community organizer” leading the fight against racial codes in South Africa - with some significant success. This is where Gandhi developed his ideas of passive resistance (satyagraha) whe......more

Goodreads review by Eunice on February 09, 2014

A great start to the year with two wonderful works of non-fiction by two authors who I am privileged to have met. Indeed they both lunched in our house in Chennai on the same day. William Dalrymple's masterly Return of a King I have already reviewed. Ram Guha's Gandhi before India is also a beautifu......more

Goodreads review by Vikas on May 07, 2019

Unlike few of the people I know I still don't feel like giving up on Gandhi and his philosophies. After all as a proud Indian Gandhiji has been father of our nation. The face we see on every note and it every official place. I must have seen the 1982 movies more than 4 times and yet despite reading......more

Goodreads review by S.Ach on December 18, 2020

Had Guha decided to write one instead of two volumes of Gandhi's biography, the content of this book would have shrunk to 3-4 chapters, not more than 100 pages in that. But, Guha decided to write two volumes instead of one, probably because the title appealed him more to work on this project - 'Gand......more

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