Great Soul
A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointmentsahis success in seizing Indiaas 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 countryas minorities, outcasts, and rural poor. Pulitzer Prizeawinner Joseph Lelyveld shows in vivid, unmatched detail how Gandhias sense of mission, social values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance were shaped on another subcontinentaduring two decades in South Africaaand then tested by an India that quickly learned to revere him as a Mahatma, or aGreat Soul, a while following him only a small part of the way to the social transformation he envisioned. The man himself emerges as one of historyas 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 heroicaand tragicalast months of this selfless leaderas 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 aFather of the Nationa but were less inclined to embrace his teachings. Muslim support, crucial in his rise to leadership, soon waned, and the oppressed untouchablesafor whom Gandhi spoke to Hindus as a wholeaproduced their own leaders. Here is a vital, brilliant reconsideration of Gandhias 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 Indiaas social conscienceaand not just Indiaas. From the Hardcover edition.1ali-at111aa#39;s answers pursue whatever tortuous logic comes to hand; theya#39;re also insistent and categorical; when he doesna#39;t duck questions, ... Similarly, aThis is a purely Hindu question and, therefore, the non-Hindus have no place in the struggle. ... So writes T. K. Ravindran, a Kerala historian who conducted extensive research in Travancorea#39;s Malayalam-language archives and then wrote the onlyanbsp;...
| Title | : | Great Soul |
| Author | : | Joseph Lelyveld |
| Publisher | : | Vintage - 2011-03-29 |
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