Great soul : Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India /
Joseph Lelyveld.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
- xv, 425 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
South Africa -- Prologue : an unwelcome visitor -- No-touchism -- Among Zulus -- Upper house -- Leading the indentured -- India -- Waking India -- Unapproachability -- Hail, deliverer -- Fast unto death -- Village of service -- Mass mayhem -- Do or die.
In this ambitious, original study, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtrodden--against Gandhi's own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history.