In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections

Author: B R NandaPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2001Language: EnglishPages: 281ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195656490 DescriptionThis comprehensive and scrupulously researched selection presents, in compact and lucid form, the major events and personalities of Gandhi's long public life.B R Nanda's first work on Gandhi was published in 1958. Since then, he has published extensively on many related topics, but Gandhi appears as a leitmotif in the entire corpus of his work. Nanda's intensive and abiding curiosity about this key figure of modern India has resulted in an insightful and unique understanding of Gandhi's motivations, and the circumstances surrounding his political decisions and personal choices.The twenty-nine essays in this book are critical yet insightful and sympathetic analyses of various facets of Gandhi's multidimensional personality. They were written on different occasions, for a variety of purposes, and together they offer a richness of perspective and unders