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"Remarkable. . . . [A] moving portrait." --"The New York Times Book Review"
"Guha is a brilliant historian who combines the gift of a storyteller, the discipline of an academic and the critical ability of seeing Gandhi as a fascinating human being, by not placing him on a pedestal. . . . [He] has re-created the past by connecting scattered dots . . . to weave a rich tapestry." --"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Striking. . . . Guha ably shows, for all that Gandhi influenced events in South Africa, it was he who experienced the greater change." --"The Economist
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"Deeply contextualized, dexterously researched, and judiciously written, this deserves to become the landmark biography of the early Gandhi." --Maya Jasanoff, "New Republic"
"Fascinating. . . . A biography with a remarkable ear for the resonances of Gandhi's work and time--for the fan-mail and hate-mail; for overheard disagreements with family and colleagues; for his exchanges with political acquaintances, including his enemies. . . . As exhaustively researched a biography of the African Gandhi as we will have for some time." --"The Independent "(London)
"[A] magisterial study. . . . Guha summarizes the traits of Gandhi's character and the stages during the first half of his life that prepared him for the much more difficult journey he would undertake once he returned to India. . . . I was rewarded beyond all of my expectations [by "Gandhi Before India"]." --Charles R. Larson, "Counterpunch
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"Substantial enough to be comprehensive, yet concise enough to be approachable by the general reader. . . . Sharp, insightful, balanced and impeccably researched." --Alex von Tunzelmann, "The Times" (London)
"A work of vivid social history as well as biography. . . . One of the surprises in "Gandhi Before India" is just how much fresh material it contains. Guha has a gift for tracking down obscure letters and newspaper reports and patching them together to make history come alive." --Patrick French, "The Guardian" (London)
"Fascinating. . . . ["Gandhi Before India"] reveals how an impossibly shy young man, who donned top hat and tails as a student at Inner Temple, transformed himself into Churchill's 'half-naked fakir, ' dedicated to his spinning wheel while simultaneously challenging the might of the Empire." --"The Sunday Times "(London)
"The portrait offered in historian Ramachandra Guha's biography is of Gandhi as a human being, not just a hero." --"Financial Times
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""Gandhi Before India" should be required reading for the student of contemporary affairs. . . . Guha's carefully rendered observations about class, religion, and ethnicity--how they divide people and how they can be bridged by common concerns and simple decency--are the heart of this book. . . . Remarkable." --"The""Christian Science Monitor
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"A magisterial history. . . . In Ramachandra Guha, a great man has found a great biographer, a wise, persistent and elegant historian who has done justice to perhaps his nation's greatest story. . . . One senses, in the author's approach, something of Gandhi's own intensity and rigour. . . . [The] book never ceases to inform and intrigue." --"Sydney Morning Herald
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"What sets ["Gandhi Before India"] apart from other recent biographies . . . is Guha's resolutely non-scurrilous perspective. . . . What emerges in the end, with the slow magic of a film being developed in an old fashioned dark room, is a sharp picture of the intellectual growth of a remarkable man." --"The Hindustan Times" (India)
"Many will come to this biography wanting to know more about Gandhi himself. . . . Guha relates all this wonderfully. His book is clearly a labour of love, though not of uncritical infatuation. What distinguishes it is the breadth of the context--Indian, British and South African. Guha marshals his material sensitively and empathetically in order to give shape, colour and depth to the life of this saint-like figure." --Bernard Porter, "The Literary Review
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"Excellent and exhaustive. . . . Guha has done heroic work in reconstructing this period of Gandhi's life ... Gandhi emerges here as a fascinatingly complicated and contradictory figure . . . rich and absorbing, it will doubtless serve as the fundamental portrait of Gandhi for many years to come." --"The Sunday Business Post "(Ireland)
"Guha is India's best-known historian, who marshals his wide scholarship in contemporary and modern history with a raconteur's lucid felicity." --"DNA Mumbai"
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Ramachandra Guha is one of India's most influential historians and public intellectuals. His books include A Corner of a Foreign Field and India After Gandhi. Time magazine has said he is 'Indian democracy's pre-eminent chronicler'. He has held visiting professorships at Stanford, Yale and the London School of Economics. He lives in Bangalore.
