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Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life
Kathryn Tidrick
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Description for Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life
Paperback. A major reinterpretation of Gandhi's life, politics, religion and nation Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; BGH; BGX; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 634.
Throughout his long and turbulent career as an Indian leader, first in South Africa and then in India, Gandhi sought to fulfill his religious aspirations through politics, and to reconcile politics with his private religious discipline. The Gandhi revealed here is not the secular saint of popular renown, but a difficult and self-obsessed man driven by a sense of unique personal destiny.
Penetrating and provocative, Tidrick draws on material previously ignored by Gandhi's biographers and explores the paradoxes within his life and beliefs. Did the nationalist leader truly believe that he was not just fighting for Indian independence but also ... Read more
Throughout his long and turbulent career as an Indian leader, first in South Africa and then in India, Gandhi sought to fulfill his religious aspirations through politics, and to reconcile politics with his private religious discipline. The Gandhi revealed here is not the secular saint of popular renown, but a difficult and self-obsessed man driven by a sense of unique personal destiny.
Penetrating and provocative, Tidrick draws on material previously ignored by Gandhi's biographers and explores the paradoxes within his life and beliefs. Did the nationalist leader truly believe that he was not just fighting for Indian independence but also ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781681015
SKU
V9781781681015
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Kathryn Tidrick
Kathryn Tidrick is the author of the highly regarded Heart Beguiling Araby: The English Romance with Arabia and Empire and the English Character.
Reviews for Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life
A fine and engaging biography ... His ideas remain very relevant in understanding the problems that plague the contemporary world.
Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor at Harvard and Nobel Prize winner Brilliant.
William Dalrymple
Sunday Times
Fair and balanced.
Atul Chaturvedi
Indian Express
Exhaustively researched ... Gandhi emerges from Tidrick's detailed and balanced ... Read more
Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor at Harvard and Nobel Prize winner Brilliant.
William Dalrymple
Sunday Times
Fair and balanced.
Atul Chaturvedi
Indian Express
Exhaustively researched ... Gandhi emerges from Tidrick's detailed and balanced ... Read more