Gandhi: The True Man Behind Modern India

By Jad Adams

Book Overview

Jad Adams traces the course of Gandhi's multi-faceted life and the development of his religious, political, and social thinking over seven tumultuous decades: from his comfortable upbringing in a princely state in Gujarat; his early civil rights campaigns; his leadership through civil disobedience in the 1920s and 1930s that made him a world icon; and finally to his assassination by a Hindu extremist in 1948, only months after the birth of an independent India. An elegant and masterly account of one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century history, Adams presents for the first time the true story behind the man whose life may truly be said to have changed the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1605983411
• ISBN13: 9781605983417
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.7"