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A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens

our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in

seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle

as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his

followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of

social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, and rural

poor.

Pulitzer Prize–winner Joseph Lelyveld shows in

vivid, unmatched detail how Gandhi’s sense of mission, social

values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance were shaped on

another subcontinent—during two decades in South Africa—and then

tested by an India that quickly learned to revere him as a Mahatma,

or “Great Soul,” while following him only a small part of the way

to the social transformation he envisioned. The man himself emerges

as one of history’s most remarkable self-creations, a prosperous

lawyer who became an ascetic in a loincloth wholly dedicated to

political and social action. Lelyveld leads us step-by-step through

the heroic—and tragic—last months of this selfless leader’s long

campaign when his nonviolent efforts culminated in the partition of

India, the creation of Pakistan, and a bloodbath of ethnic

cleansing that ended only with his own assassination.

India and its politicians were ready to place

Gandhi on a pedestal as “Father of the Nation” but were less

inclined to embrace his teachings. Muslim support, crucial in his

rise to leadership, soon waned, and the oppressed untouchables—for

whom Gandhi spoke to Hindus as a whole—produced their own

leaders.

Here is a vital, brilliant reconsideration of

Gandhi’s extraordinary struggles on two continents, of his fierce

but, finally, unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy,

which more than six decades after his death still ensures his place

as India’s social conscience—and not just India’s.

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Joseph Lelyveld’s interest in Gandhi dates back

to tours in India and South Africa as a correspondent for The

New York Times, where he worked for nearly four decades, ending

up as executive editor from 1994 to 2001. His book on apartheid,

Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, won the

Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. He is also the author of

Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop. He lives in New York.

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A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, and rural poor.

Pulitzer Prize–winner Joseph Lelyveld shows in vivid, unmatched detail how Gandhi’s sense of mission, social values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance were shaped on another subcontinent—during two decades in South Africa—and then tested by an India that quickly learned to revere him as a Mahatma, or “Great Soul,” while following him only a small part of the way to the social transformation he envisioned. The man himself emerges as one of history’s most remarkable self-creations, a prosperous lawyer who became an ascetic in a loincloth wholly dedicated to political and social action. Lelyveld leads us step-by-step through the heroic—and tragic—last months of this selfless leader’s long campaign when his nonviolent efforts culminated in the partition of India, the creation of Pakistan, and a bloodbath of ethnic cleansing that ended only with his own assassination.

India and its politicians were ready to place Gandhi on a pedestal as “Father of the Nation” but were less inclined to embrace his teachings. Muslim support, crucial in his rise to leadership, soon waned, and the oppressed untouchables—for whom Gandhi spoke to Hindus as a whole—produced their own leaders.

Here is a vital, brilliant reconsideration of Gandhi’s extraordinary struggles on two continents, of his fierce but, finally, unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy, which more than six decades after his death still ensures his place as India’s social conscience—and not just India’s.