Gandhi Before India

A meticulously documented biography covering Gandhi's formative years abroad, read as a scholarly complement to his own autobiographical account already on this shelf.

scholarship. Modern scholarship — academic/historical analysis.
Theme: biography Theme: reform Theme: non-violence Theme: history

I'm partway through this one, reading it deliberately alongside Experiments with Truth rather than instead of it, since the two are doing genuinely different things and I wanted both perspectives rather than picking one.

A biography, not an autobiography

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